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Trimble Vs. Gordon

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Apr 26, 1977

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  1. Mathews Vs. Lucas US Supreme Court · Jun 29, 1976
  2. Gomez Vs. Perez US Supreme Court · Jan 17, 1973
  3. Jimenez Vs. Weinberger US Supreme Court · Jun 19, 1974
  4. New Jersey Welfare Rights Org. Vs. Cahill US Supreme Court · May 07, 1973
  5. Labine Vs. Vincent US Supreme Court · Mar 29, 1971
  6. Levy Vs. Louisiana US Supreme Court · May 20, 1968
  7. Sugarman Vs. Dougall US Supreme Court · Jun 25, 1973
  8. Reed Vs. Reed US Supreme Court · Nov 22, 1971
  9. United States Vs. Butler US Supreme Court · Jan 06, 1936
  10. U.S. 762 (1977) U.S. Supreme Court Trimble v. Gordon
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  11. U.S. 762 (1977) Trimble v. Gordon
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  12. Weber v. Aetna
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  13. the equal protection challenge to the discrimination against illegitimate children on the explicit authority of Labine v. Vincent
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  14. We considered and rejected a similar argument last Term in Mathews v. Lucas
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  15. Gomez, supra at 409 U. S. 538 . Our decision last Term in Mathews v. Lucas
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  16. The reach of the statute extends well Page 430 U. S. 773 beyond the asserted purposes. See Jimenez v. Weinberger
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  17. at 52, 329 N.E.2d at 240. The penultimate paragraph of the opinion in Labine distinguishes that case from Levy v. Louisiana
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  18. of the facts. If Sherman Gordon had devised his estate to Deta Mona, this case would not be here. Similarly, in Reed v. Reed
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  19. of decedents in the allocation of estates among the Page 430 U. S. 776 categories of heirs. See Mathews v. Lucas
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  20. Page 430 U. S. 777 Supreme Court of Illinois, they find this case constitutionally indistinguishable from Labine v. Vincent
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  21. Beaty v. Weinberger
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  22. Griffin v. Richardson
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  23. Davis v. Richardson
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  24. Glona v. American
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  25. See cases cited n 11, supra. Labine v. Vincent
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  26. of this Court's equal protection decisions, and subsequent cases have limited its force as a precedent. In Weber v. Aetna
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  27. U.S. at 406 U. S. 170 , quoting Labine v. Vincent
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  28. is a point beyond which such deference cannot justify discrimination. Although the proposition is self-evident, Reed v. Reed
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  29. involving the disposition of property at death are not immunized from equal protection scrutiny. See also Eskra v. Morton
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  30. See Eskra v. Morton
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  31. Civil War legislation, sharply altered the balance of power between the Federal and State Governments. See Mitchum v. Foster
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  32. is responsible to no constituency, and which is held back only by its own sense of self-restraint, see United States v. Butler
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  33. the freeing of the slaves, the core prohibition was early held to be aimed at the protection of blacks. See Strauder v. West
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  34. concerned, it followed logically that it should not be valid where other races were concerned, either. See Yick Wo v. Hopkins
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  35. next step was the extension of the protection to prohibit classifications resting on national origin. See Oyama v. California
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  36. involving race or national origin, they are enough like the latter to warrant similar treatment. See Graham v. Richardson
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  37. scrutiny under the Equal Protection Clause than will other laws regulating economic and social conditions. Levy v. Louisiana
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  38. U. S. 628 (1974). But see Mathews v. Lucas
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  39. Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan
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  40. not be the last, to import this sort of analysis into the Equal Protection Clause. As long ago as Royster Guano Co. v. Virginia
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  41. U.S. Supreme Court Trimble v. Gordon
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  42. of Labine v. Vincent
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  43. See Jimenez v. Weinberger
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  44. See Mathews v. Lucas
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  45. In Weber v. Aetna
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  46. Eskra v. Morton
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  47. the Federal and State Governments. See Mitchum v. Foster
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  48. See Strauder v. West
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  49. See Yick Wo v. Hopkins
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  50. See Oyama v. California
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