Sentences with phrase «denying equal protection»

To the contrary, these laws have the effect of retaining and protecting some grossly ineffective teachers — thus, denying equal protection to the unfortunate students who are assigned to them.

While in a democratic system the majority gets to set the rules, in a civilized society no minority is denied equal protection.

The district court enjoined their enforcement, finding that they deny equal protection and due process of law.

The Court does not reach or decide any claim that the statute or itsapplication denies equal protection, procedural or substantive dueprocess, or any other constitutional rights.

the evidentiary burden placed on a criminal defendant who claims that he has been denied equal protection through the State's use of peremptory challenges to exclude members of his race from the petit jury.

Swain required the Court to decide, among other issues, whether a black defendant was denied equal protection by the State's exercise of peremptory challenges to exclude members of his race from the petit jury.

Not exact matches

(As the Fourteenth Amendment says, «nor shall any State... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.»)

Constitutional Amendment 14 (this one specifically applies to Pan's Bill): ``... No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.»

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«The Court holds that denying civil marriage to same - sex couples violates their fundamental right to civil marriage under the due - process clause and their right to equal protection in the enjoyment...

But reading substantive due process and substantive equal protection into the Constitution achieves the very result that the Court explicitly denies itself.

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Many people believe that the federal government ought to play a strong role to make good on the promise of the Fourteenth Amendment, that the government shall not «deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.»

That clause vaguely says that no state shall deny to any person «the equal protection of the laws.»

Parents of students denied assignment to particular schools under these plans solely because of their race brought suit, contending that allocating children to different public schools on the basis of race violated the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of equal protection.

In 1964, the Supreme Court ruled in Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County that the County had to reopen its public schools on the grounds that it was still in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.23 By closing its public schools and subsequently subsidizing private academies that only admitted white students, the County, along with the state board of education and state superintendent, continued to deny black students the rights their white peers were provided.

A declaration that the State's funding scheme, which results in charter students receiving 60 to 75 cents on every dollar received by district students, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the New York State Constitution; A declaration that the State's funding scheme, which denies facilities funding to charter schools, violates the New York State Constitution; A declaration that the State's funding scheme, because of its overwhelming and targeted impact on minority students, unconstitutionally discriminates on the basis of race.

In 1954, the Supreme Court in its landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision ruled that separate school facilities based on race are inherently unequal and thus in violation of the 14th Amendment which states, in part: «No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.»

If a teacher sues on the basis that a policy unconstitutionally denies them «substantive due process» or equal protection, a judge will consider their complaint under what's known as a «rational basis analysis,» meaning the judge will look to see if the policy can be shown to have any kind of rational relation to a legitimate government issue.

(a) Whenever the Attorney General receives a complaint in writing signed by an individual to the effect that he is being deprived of or threatened with the loss of his right to the equal protection of the laws, on account of his race, color, religion, or national origin, by being denied equal utilization of any public facility which is owned, operated, or managed by or on behalf of any State or subdivision thereof, other than a public school or public college as defined in section 401 of title IV hereof, and the Attorney General believes the complaint is meritorious and certifies that the signer or signers of such complaint are unable, in his judgment, to initiate and maintain appropriate legal proceedings for relief and that the institution of an action will materially further the orderly progress of desegregation in public facilities, the Attorney General is authorized to institute for or in the name of the United States a civil action in any appropriate district court of the United States against such parties and for such relief as may be appropriate, and such court shall have and shall exercise jurisdiction of proceedings instituted pursuant to this section.

Ginsburg's prim appearance lay at odds with her insistence, radical to many, that women were people in need of equal opportunities, not «protection» that ensconced them in lower - paying jobs or denied them agency over their own bodies.

Judith Baer maintains, however, that in fact American judicial decisions have consistently denied individuals the form of equality to which they are legally entitled — that the courts have interpreted constitutional guarantees of equal protection in ways that undermine the original intent of Congress.

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Does the restraint against exposing children overnight to unmarried romantic companions deny due process or equal protection to homosexuals (since they can not marry)?

Only recently, this Court had occasion to declare that a state law which denied equal enjoyment of property rights to a designated class of citizens of specified race and ancestry was not a legitimate exercise of the state's police power, but violated the guaranty of the equal protection of the laws.

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State support of segregated schools through any arrangement, management, funds, or property can not be squared with the Amendment's command that no State shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

``... nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.»

The draft policies would deny workers suffering from work - related stress their Charter right to equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination.