A clause in the U.S. Constitution that says that no state shall “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” This “equal protection clause” has been used to challenge ...
The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is exactly like a similar provision in the Fifth Amendment, which only restricts the federal government. It states that no person shall be “deprived ...
Dozens of other states have embraced some version of an Equal Rights Amendment in their constitutions. New Yorkers will get a chance to vote on whether to expand the class of people protected against ...
Does Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prevent states from designating separate girls’ and boys’ sports teams based on biological ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Professors Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick talked about their book, The Original Meaning of the 14th Amendment. They discussed the significance of the ...
An Illinois federal district court granted Chicago’s motion to dismiss a Mexican American LGBTQIA+ sign hanger’s Title VII and constitutional law discrimination claims for failing to exhaust ...
My colleague and friend Sherif Girgis has sent me the following thoughts on the Equal Protection Clause and the momentous abortion case on the Supreme Court's docket. The leaked Dobbs draft spends ...
The DACA decision primarily involved principles of administrative law. (I discussed those issues here and here). But the case also involved a challenge brought under the Equal Protection Component of ...