The altered conditions accounting for the different outcomes in Gwendolyn Hoyt's case in 1961, and in the 1970s cases of Sally Reed, Sharron Frontiero, Stephen Wiesenfeld, Curtis Craig, and several others, were these.
Chief Justice Rehnquist assigned Justice O'Connor the task of writing the Court's opinion in Adarand Constructors v. Pena (1995). Although Thomas's vote provided the majority, O'Connor's vote on affirmative action remains the key vote, ...
Equal Protection: Rights and Liberties Under the Law
The book covers the following topics: rational basis review, racial classifications, the different tiers of review, gender classifications, classifications affecting nonmarital children, classifications of aliens, classifications on the ...
This book uses primary sources to closely examine the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and to show how legal interpretations of it have had a profound impact on American life as we know it.
The book covers the following topics: rational basis review, racial classifications, the different tiers of review, gender classifications, classifications affecting nonmarital children, classifications of aliens, classifications on the ...