equal-protection

This year, a Massachusetts judge ruled that DOMA violated the equal-protection rights of same-sex married couples.

Edie and Jerry: The real people behind DOJ's shift on DOMA 2011

One year later, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled 4-3 that it was a violation of the equal-protection and due-process clauses of the Massachusetts Constitution to deny marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

D. R. Tucker: The Impersonator D. R. Tucker 2012

In 2008, the California Supreme Court found that the state constitution's privacy, due-process and equal-protection provisions didn't permit discrimination against same-sex couples.

Court Rejects State Ban on Gay Marriage Geoffrey A. Fowler 2012

See In re Joseph T. 430 S. E.2d 523, 524 (S.C. 1993) (state law banning indecent language around women was equal-protection violation because it rested on archaic stereotype that women were more vulnerable to rough talk thanmen).

The Volokh Conspiracy » Freedom of Speech vs. Workplace Harassment Law — A Big Free Speech Win in the Ninth Circuit 2010

In a 2-1 vote, a panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said California's 2008 law, popularly known as Proposition 8, violated the 14th Amendment's equal-protection clause by stigmatizing a minority group without legitimate reason.

Court Rejects State Ban on Gay Marriage Geoffrey A. Fowler 2012

Instead, he singles out for overruling Supreme Court precedents limiting equal-protection argument by defendants.

Crimes, Courts And Cures Paul G. Cassell 2011

Mr. Stuntz argues that narrow equal-protection jurisprudence helps to explain why, nearly a century later, Chief Justice Earl Warren began spinning constitutional restrictions from the 14th Amendment's other important provision, the Due Process Clause.

Crimes, Courts And Cures Paul G. Cassell 2011

He first looks at the 14th Amendment's effort in 1868 to ensure that newly freed slaves received "the equal protection of the laws"—a promise that fell apart a few years later when the Supreme Court eviscerated the equal-protection guarantee and left generations of Southern blacks to be victimized by Klan violence.

Crimes, Courts And Cures Paul G. Cassell 2011

But rather than address racism and poverty head-on as equal-protection matters, the Supreme Court let old precedents divert its attention to due-process claims.

Crimes, Courts And Cures Paul G. Cassell 2011

A federal appeals court struck down California's ban on gay marriages, saying it violated the Constitution's equal-protection clause.

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