A Time for Courage on the Supreme Court | Opinion O. Carter Snead , Professor of Law and Director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, the University of Notre Dame On 5/20/21 at 6:30 AM EDT Brown v. Board of Education and the precedent overruled was Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which for 58 years had allowed states to engage in "separate but equal" discrimination on the basis of race. On May 17, 2021, the Court agreed to hear a dispute regarding a younger line of precedents—namely, Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992)—that has for many decades forbidden states from extending the basic, fair and equal protection of the law to every member of the human family, born and unborn. By granting certiorari in