Sentences with phrase «equal protection doctrine»

This is both a civil right under the equal protection doctrine and good social policy, grounded in the individual and social utilitarianism of educating all students.

A friend who has been teaching a course on constitutional law for a couple of decades and has achieved a national reputation confided recently that he plans to stop teaching the course; there just isn't any integrity to the subject, and it becomes almost a degrading experience to have to teach, say, equal protection doctrine and pretend that the Court's decisions are the product of any sort of coherent thinking.

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In Brown, the court overturned, for public schools, its approval of this doctrine in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) and established that segregated schools violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council v Bainbridge [2009] ICR 133 This appeal addressed a number of issues central to equal pay, including the lawfulness of pay protection and the application of the doctrine of res judicata.

Ct. 1973)(finding the «tender years» doctrine unconstitutional deprives the father of Equal Protection under the 14th Amendment).