Latinos and American Law: Landmark Supreme Court CasesTo achieve justice and equal protection under the law, Latinos have turned to the U. S. court system to assert and defend their rights. Some of these cases have reached the United States Supreme Court, whose rulings over more than a century have both expanded and restricted the legal rights of Latinos, creating a complex terrain of power relations between the U. S. government and the country's now largest ethnic minority. To map this legal landscape,