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Child Support: The Double Standard, Karen Colby Weiner Oct 1978

Child Support: The Double Standard, Karen Colby Weiner

Florida State University Law Review

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Personnel Administrator Of Massachusetts V. Feeney, Lewis F. Powell Jr. Oct 1978

Personnel Administrator Of Massachusetts V. Feeney, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

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Equal Protection And Welfare Legislation: The Need For A Principled Approach, Lynda D. Frazier Jan 1978

Equal Protection And Welfare Legislation: The Need For A Principled Approach, Lynda D. Frazier

Seattle University Law Review

The Supreme Court decision in Maher v. Roe, denying an equal protection claim to Medicaid payments for elective abortions, illustrates the Court's inconsistent application of minimal rationality standards to socioeconomic legislation. This comment analyzes Maher in light of recent irreconcilable Supreme Court decisions involving similar equal protection claims to welfare payments. It shows that the Court's standard of review vacillates between deferential abdication to the legislature and unexplained judicial interventionism, and concludes that until the Court adheres to a consistent and principled approach to minimal rationality review, equal protection will remain an area for unrestrained imposition of judicial, rather …


Constitutional Law - Fourteenth Amendment - Statute Denying Illegitimates The Right To Inherit By Intestate Succession From Their Fathers Held To Be Invidious Discrimination In Violation Of The Equal Protection Clause Of The Fourteenth Amendment, Lisa S. Hunter Jan 1978

Constitutional Law - Fourteenth Amendment - Statute Denying Illegitimates The Right To Inherit By Intestate Succession From Their Fathers Held To Be Invidious Discrimination In Violation Of The Equal Protection Clause Of The Fourteenth Amendment, Lisa S. Hunter

Villanova Law Review

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Constitutional Law - Corrections - Prisoners' Constitutional Right Of Access To Courts Imposes Duty On State To Provide Prison Law Libraries, Amanda M. Shaw Jan 1978

Constitutional Law - Corrections - Prisoners' Constitutional Right Of Access To Courts Imposes Duty On State To Provide Prison Law Libraries, Amanda M. Shaw

Villanova Law Review

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