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Romer Vs. Evans

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  • US Supreme Court
  • May 20, 1996

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  20. U.S. 620 (1996) October Term, 1995 Syllabus Romer, Governor of Colorado, Et Al. V. Evans
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  21. bears a rational relation to some independent and legitimate legislative end. See, e. g., Heller v. Doe
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  22. for the Colorado Bar Association et al. by Stephen V. Bomse
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  23. because it infringed the fundamental right of gays and lesbians to participate in the political process. Evans v. Romer
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  24. Evans I). To reach this conclusion, the state court relied on our voting rights cases, e. g., Reynolds v. Sims
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  25. Harper v. Virginia
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  26. and on our precedents involving discriminatory restructuring of governmental decisionmaking, see, e. g., Hunter v. Erickson
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  27. Washington v. Seattle
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  28. Hurley v. Irish-American
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  29. so far been given the protection of heightened equal protection scrutiny under our cases. See, e. g., J. E. B. v. Alabama
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  30. for one purpose or another, with resulting disadvantage to various groups or persons. Personnel Administrator of Mass. v. Feeney
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  31. F. S. Royster Guano Co. v. Virginia
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  32. the legislative classification so long as it bears a rational relation to some legitimate end. See, e. g., Heller v. Doe
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  33. unwise or works to the disadvantage of a particular group, or if the rationale for it seems tenuous. See New Orleans v. Dukes
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  34. Williamson v. Lee
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  35. Railway Express Agency, Inc. v. New
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  36. Kotch v. Board
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  37. are not drawn for the purpose of disadvantaging the group burdened by the law. See Railroad Retirement Bd. v. Fritz
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  38. Louisville Gas & Elec. Co. v. Coleman
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  39. U. S. 629 , 635 (1950) (quoting Shelley v. Kraemer
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  40. Skinner v. Oklahoma
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  41. ex rel. Williamson, 316 U. S. 535 , 541 (1942) (quoting Yick Wo v. Hopkins
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  42. U. S. 356 , 369 (1886)). Davis v. Beason
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  43. held that persons advocating a certain practice may be denied the right to vote, it is no longer good law. Brandenburg v. Ohio
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  44. because of their status, its ruling could not stand without surviving strict scrutiny, a most doubtful outcome. Dunn v. Blumstein
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  45. cf. United States v. Brown
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  46. may be denied the right to vote, its holding is not implicated by our decision and is unexceptionable. See Richardson v. Ramirez
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  47. Department of Agriculture v. Moreno
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  48. a law must bear a rational relationship to a legitimate governmental purpose, Kadrmas v. Dickinson
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  49. disfavorable treatment, the Court contradicts a decision, unchallenged here, pronounced only 10 years ago, see Bowers v. Hardwick
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  50. In Bowers v. Hardwick
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