t The Hawaii Supreme Ct. (NOT the S. Ct.) remanded law prohibiting gay marriageviolated equal rights A. under Hawaii const. (The prohibition did not violate right to privacy.) Marriage has benefits, and is also a vital right essential to orderly pursuit of happiness.
Constitutional Law – Spring 1999 - Major Premises
Federalism - Vertical distribution of government power................................................................................ 1
Implied powers - McCulloch v. Maryland – Bank of the U.S...................................................................................... 1
Dormant commerce clause (DCC) – Protection against facial discrimination....................................................... 19
10th Amendment - Implied limitations on congressional power -............................................................................. 23
Other Federalism premises................................................................................................................................................ 30
Separation of powers - Horizontal distribution of national power......................................................... 39
Jurisdiction and standing................................................................................................................................................... 45
Political question doctrine................................................................................................................................................. 51
Bicameralism and presentment....................................................................................................................................... 61
Administrative agencies and the separation of powers............................................................................................... 65
Non delegation doctrine and “quasi-constitutional” statutes..................................................................................... 72
Other separation of powers premises.............................................................................................................................. 80
Privacy, personhood, and family - Modern Substantive due process.................................................................... 110
Case Summaries................................................................................................................................................................. 134
Constitutional Law – Spring 1999.............................................................................................................................. 1
Federalism - Vertical distribution of government power................................................................................ 1
A government of enumerated powers - Why does federalism matter?................................................................. 1
Implied powers - McCulloch v. Maryland – Bank of the U.S....................................................................................... 1
Pre New Deal.................................................................................................................................................................... 5
Gibbons v. Ogden – New York steamboat monopoly......................................................................................... 5
United States v. E.C. Knight - Manufacture vs. commerce – Sugar monopoly............................................. 6
Substantial economic effects and stream of commerce.................................................................................... 6
Champion v. Ames - The Lottery Case............................................................................................................ 7
Hammer v. Dagenhart - Child labor.................................................................................................................. 7
Summary of pre-New Deal law on commerce clause......................................................................................... 8
The New Deal Crisis and the Rise of the Welfare State............................................................................................ 8
Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States............................................................................................................... 9
Carter v. Carter Coal Co......................................................................................................................................... 10
Modern Trend................................................................................................................................................................ 10
NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. - Expanded “substantial economic effect”.................................. 10
Wickard v. Filburn - The “cumulative effect” theory....................................................................................... 11
United States v. Darby - police power regulations - Minimum wage............................................................. 12
Civil rights cases and the commerce clause............................................................................................................. 13
Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States – Local incident of interstate commerce..................................... 13
Katzenbach v. McClung – Ollie’s BBQ............................................................................................................... 13
Effect of Lopez........................................................................................................................................................ 14
Judicial abdication during New Deal......................................................................................................................... 14
United States v. Lopez – Latest word – Guns and schools do mix...................................................................... 15
Reconciling Lopez with New Deal.............................................................................................................................. 17
Current status of commerce clause........................................................................................................................... 17
Does Lopez provide workable rule of law?.............................................................................................................. 17
United States v. Butler - Beyond enumerated powers...................................................................................... 18
Steward Machine Co. v. Davis.............................................................................................................................. 19
South Dakota v. Dole - National drinking age.................................................................................................... 19
Pennhurst State School & Hospital v. Halderman............................................................................................ 19
Dormant commerce clause (DCC) – Protection against facial discrimination..................................................... 19
Gibbons v. Ogden – New York steamboat monopoly................................................................................. 20
Willson v. Black Bird Creek Marsh Co........................................................................................................... 20
Cooley v. Board of Port Wardens (1851) – “Cooley test” – That which is by nature national........... 20
Modern DCC doctrine....................................................................................................................................... 20
City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey – DCC – No solid waste...................................................................... 20
West Lynn Creamery, Inc. v. Healy – Milk tax subsidizes in-state farmers........................................... 21
Bobbitt’s modalities and the DCC?................................................................................................................ 21
Market participant exception under commerce clause.................................................................................... 22
Reeves, Inc. v. Stake.......................................................................................................................................... 22
10th Amendment - Implied limitations on congressional power -............................................................................ 23
National League of Cities v. Usery - Traditional government functions test..................................................... 23
Garcia v. San Antonio MTA - Overruled National League of Cities – Minimum wage................................... 23
Use of state’s lawmaking mechanisms..................................................................................................................... 24
New York v. United States - Waste disposal....................................................................................................... 24
Printz v. United States – Brady Bill – Don’t No commandeer state executive............................................ 26
Possible McCulloch theory underlying New York and Printz.......................................................................... 28
U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton..................................................................................................................................... 28
Other Federalism premises............................................................................................................................................... 30
The treaty and war powers.......................................................................................................................................... 30
Missouri v. Holland – Migratory birds................................................................................................................. 30
Woods v. Cloyd W. Miller Co................................................................................................................................ 30
The taxing power........................................................................................................................................................... 30
Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co................................................................................................................................ 30
The guarantee clause and the reconstruction amendments.................................................................................. 31
Texas v. White.......................................................................................................................................................... 31
Validity of 13th and 14th Amendments................................................................................................................. 31
The power to enforce the reconstruction amendments.................................................................................... 32
Katzenbach v. Morgan – Spanish speaking voters...................................................................................... 32
City of Boerne v. Flores – RFRA Unconstitutional........................................................................................... 32
Limitations on state regulation................................................................................................................................... 35
Typology of Powers...................................................................................................................................................... 35
The Privileges and Immunities Clause of Article IV.......................................................................................... 36
United Building Council v. Camden - No market participant exception for PIC................................... 36
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. v. Ward...................................................................................................... 36
Facially neutral statutes with significant effects on interstate commerce..................................................... 36
Exxon Corp. v. Governor of Maryland.......................................................................................................... 37
Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising Comm’n.............................................................................. 38
Separation of powers - Horizontal distribution of national power......................................................... 39
Distribution of national power - Why does separation of powers matter?......................................................... 39
Formalism vs. functionalism....................................................................................................................................... 39
Marbury v. Madison – Supreme Court review of congressional statutes........................................................... 40
Theoretical foundation of judicial review................................................................................................................ 42
Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee – Supreme Court review of state court decisions..................................................... 43
Jurisdiction and standing................................................................................................................................................ 45
Ex Parte McCardle - Congressional control of appellate jurisdiction.................................................................. 45
United States v. Klein......................................................................................................................................... 46
Good confusion.................................................................................................................................................. 46
Case or Controversy Requirement............................................................................................................................. 46
Allen v. Wright - IRS tax-exempt status for segregated private school......................................................... 47
Lujan v. Defenders of the Wildlife – Endangered Species Act........................................................................ 49
Raines v. Byrd - Line item veto............................................................................................................................. 49
Perspective on cases................................................................................................................................................ 50
Political question doctrine.............................................................................................................................................. 51
Baker v. Carr - Apportionment of the Tennessee Assembly........................................................................... 51
Luther v. Borden - Guaranty clause non-justiciable......................................................................................... 52
Why is there a political question doctrine?.......................................................................................................... 52
Davis v. Bandemer - Unconstitutional gerrymandering justiciable................................................................ 52
Nixon v. United States - Impeachment non-justiciable.................................................................................... 52
Coleman v. Miller - Congress gets to say whether USC has been amended................................................. 53
Timing and certiorari............................................................................................................................................... 53
United States v. Nixon – Watergate tapes........................................................................................................... 56
Reviewability of executive privilege decisions......................................................................................................... 57
Scope of executive privilege........................................................................................................................................ 57
National security interests...................................................................................................................................... 58
United States v. AT&T...................................................................................................................................... 58
Legislative Investigations and Civil Proceedings............................................................................................... 59
Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities v. Nixon................................................. 59
Dellums v. Powell................................................................................................................................................ 59
Mississippi v. Johnson........................................................................................................................................ 59
Nixon v. Fitzgerald............................................................................................................................................. 59
Harlow v. Fitzgerald........................................................................................................................................... 60
Clinton v. Jones................................................................................................................................................... 60
Law and politics............................................................................................................................................................ 60
Law versus politics................................................................................................................................................... 60
Nixon v. Administrator of General Services.................................................................................................. 60
Law as politics.......................................................................................................................................................... 61
Bicameralism and presentment........................................................................................................................................ 61
INS v. Chadha - One house veto provision stricken.............................................................................................. 61
General critique by Koppelman............................................................................................................................ 63
Single-house actions approved by USC............................................................................................................... 64
Chadha in context - Legislative control of the bureaucracy........................................................................... 64
The reach of Chadha.............................................................................................................................................. 64
Process Gas Consumers Group v. Consumers Energy Council of America............................................. 64
United States Senate v. FTC............................................................................................................................. 64
A return to the text?................................................................................................................................................. 65
Administrative agencies and the separation of powers.............................................................................................. 65
Meyers v. United States.......................................................................................................................................... 66
The rise of independent agencies.......................................................................................................................... 66
Humphrey’s Executor v. United States - FTC member removal............................................................... 66
Wiener v. United States - War Claims Commission removal..................................................................... 66
Buckley v. Valeo - Appointments Clause and FEC – Officer of the U.S................................................. 67
Various assessments of Myers, Humphrey’s Executor, and Buckley........................................................... 67
Bowsher v. Synar - Good-bye Gramm-Rudman..................................................................................................... 68
Commitment and the budget...................................................................................................................................... 69
Appointments power - Congressional control over administrative officials...................................................... 69
Chadha and Bowsher............................................................................................................................................. 69
Morrison and Bowsher............................................................................................................................................ 69
Koppelman on Morrison and Mistretta............................................................................................................... 70
Freytag v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue............................................................................................. 70
Weiss v. United States........................................................................................................................................ 70
Edmond v. United States.................................................................................................................................. 70
Justice Scalia’s Bowsher and Mistretta dissents................................................................................................. 70
Congressional control of administrative agencies after Chadha and Bowsher........................................... 71
Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.......................................................................................................... 71
Non delegation doctrine and “quasi-constitutional” statutes................................................................................. 72
Non-delegation and National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 (NIRA)....................................................... 72
Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan......................................................................................................................... 72
Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States....................................................................................................... 72
Demise of non-delegation doctrine....................................................................................................................... 73
Amalgamated Meat Cutters v. Connally....................................................................................................... 73
Touby v. United States...................................................................................................................................... 73
Loving v. United States..................................................................................................................................... 73
Arguments in favor of reviving non-delegation doctrine.................................................................................. 73
D. Schoenbrod..................................................................................................................................................... 73
Industrial Union v. American Petroleum Institute – Rehnquist dissent.................................................... 73
Ely (Democracy and Distrust).......................................................................................................................... 74
Stewart – against non delegation doctrine..................................................................................................... 74
Lowi’s assessment of the “new” Constitution............................................................................................... 74
Control of foreign affairs............................................................................................................................................. 76
United States v. Curtiss-Wright Corp. – Foreign arms sales embargo............................................................ 76
Text, history, and presidential power.............................................................................................................. 76
Functionalism and the autonomy of constitutional interpretation........................................................... 76
Allocation of war making authority..................................................................................................................... 77
Approaches toward reconciling these provisions.......................................................................................... 77
Prize Cases - President’s power to use armed forces.................................................................................... 78
Orlando v. Laird – Vietnam non-justiciable................................................................................................. 78
Dellums v. Bush – The Persian Gulf War....................................................................................................... 78
UN “peacekeeping” or “peace enforcement”............................................................................................... 78
The War Powers Resolution................................................................................................................................... 79
War Powers Resolution is unconstitutional.................................................................................................... 79
The War Powers Resolution is constitutional................................................................................................ 79
Practice under the Resolution........................................................................................................................... 79
The Constitution without courts – War Powers and Boland............................................................................ 80
Other separation of powers premises............................................................................................................................. 80
Dames & Moore v. Regan - Constitutional limits on scope of executive agreements........................... 80
United States v. Belmont.................................................................................................................................. 80
Line item vetoes....................................................................................................................................................... 82
New York v. United States – No unfunded mandates – 10th Amendment.............................................. 82
Unfunded Mandate Reform Act of 1995...................................................................................................... 82
Contract with America...................................................................................................................................... 82
Constitutional amendment to balance the budget............................................................................................ 82
Morrison v. Olson – Special prosecutor laws............................................................................................................ 83
Mistretta v. United States – U.S. Sentencing Commission.................................................................................... 84
Final thoughts on separation of powers.................................................................................................................... 85
Utility of equal protection analysis....................................................................................................................... 87
Race and the Constitution..................................................................................................................................... 87
Slavery and the Constitution................................................................................................................................. 87
State v. Post......................................................................................................................................................... 87
Dred Scott v. Sanford........................................................................................................................................ 87
Reconstruction and retreat..................................................................................................................................... 88
Strauder v. West Virginia – Invalidated law barring blacks from juries................................................... 88
Plessy v. Ferguson – Separate but equal – Railroad cars............................................................................ 89
Korematsu v. United States (Black 1944) – Japanese WWII interment.................................................. 90
Overview of equal protection doctrine................................................................................................................. 92
The attack on Jim Crow......................................................................................................................................... 93
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (Brown I) – School desegregation......................................... 93
Bolling v. Sharpe - 14th Amendment equal protection federal via 5th Amendment............................... 94
Brown II............................................................................................................................................................... 95
Facially neutral laws that disadvantage minorities........................................................................................... 96
Washington v. Davis.......................................................................................................................................... 96
Privileges or immunities – 14th Amendment.................................................................................................................. 97
The Slaughter-House Cases – New Orleans slaughtering monopoly................................................................... 97
Slaugheter-House remains good law.................................................................................................................... 98
Barron v. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore.................................................................................................. 98
Murray v. Hoboken Land & Improvement Co................................................................................................. 99
Twining v. New Jersey............................................................................................................................................. 99
Palko v. Connecticut – Double jeopardy............................................................................................................ 99
Adamson v. California – Black dissent - Total incorporation......................................................................... 99
Duncan v. Louisiana............................................................................................................................................... 99
Fletcher v. Peck – Corrupt land sale contract not voidable by State........................................................... 100
Ogden v. Saunders – State bankruptcy law valid prospectively................................................................... 101
Calder v. Bull – Ex post facto - Historical Modality – Criminal only............................................................... 101
Home Building and Loan Assn. v. Blaisdell..................................................................................................... 102
Modern contracts clause law and AK analysis................................................................................................ 102
Substantive due process - Protecting economic interests - “Redistribution”.................................................... 103
Lochner v. New York – Time to make the donuts – No maximum hours for bakers.............................. 103
AK’s lecture on Lochner................................................................................................................................. 104
Civil War makes Lochner look less crazy.................................................................................................... 105
Structural and ethical basis for Lochner holding........................................................................................ 105
Forming an opinion of Lochner..................................................................................................................... 106
Lochner Era - most significant judicial interventions in American history............................................ 106
Munn v. Illinois - Escape hatch from Lochner – “Public interest”.......................................................... 107
Muller v. Oregon – Another escape hatch – Women “special class”...................................................... 107
Bailey v. Alabama – Personal service contracts enforced by jail time no more....................................... 107
Nebbia v. New York.............................................................................................................................................. 108
West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish – The death of Lochner – Female minimum wage............................... 108
United States v. Carolene Products Co. – Filled milk..................................................................................... 108
Williamson v. Lee Optical - Full employment for ophthalmologists............................................................ 109
Ferguson v. Skrupa................................................................................................................................................ 109
Summary of substantive due process - Economic rights............................................................................... 109
Privacy, personhood, and family - Modern Substantive due process.................................................................... 110
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette - Overview....................................................................... 110
The right of privacy.................................................................................................................................................... 110
Individual rights after the New Deal.................................................................................................................. 110
Meyer v. Nebraska – Okay to teach foreign language to school children............................................. 111
Pierce v. Society of Sisters.............................................................................................................................. 111
Griswold v. Connecticut - Condommania................................................................................................... 111
Eisenstadt v. Baird........................................................................................................................................... 114
Roe v. Wade...................................................................................................................................................... 114
Roe and Griswold............................................................................................................................................. 116
Planned Parenthood v. Casey – Abortion waiting period and other restrictions.................................. 116
AK’s approach to abortion question............................................................................................................ 122
Bowers v. Hardwick - Sodomy........................................................................................................................... 124
Washington v. Glucksberg - Physician-assisted suicide.................................................................................. 126
Sex and sexual orientation........................................................................................................................................ 129
Reed v. Reed..................................................................................................................................................... 129
Frontiero v. Richardson – Classification based on sex inherently suspect............................................ 129
Craig v. Boren – Beer sales to 18 – 20 year-old women only, not men................................................. 129
United States v. Virginia – VMI gender integration................................................................................... 130
Other Candidates for heightened scrutiny........................................................................................................ 132
Romer v. Evans – Special rights for gays.................................................................................................... 132
Case Summaries................................................................................................................................................................. 134
Strauder v. West Virginia (1880): 14th Amendment.................................................................................. 134
Peters v. Kiff (1972): 14th Amendment....................................................................................................... 134
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896): 13th, 14th Amendments................................................................................... 134
Brown v. Board of Education (1954): 14th Amendment, Equal Protection.......................................... 134
Bolling v. Sharpe (1954): 5th Amendment, Equal Protection, Due Process.......................................... 135
Marbury v. Madison (1803): Judicial Review, Interpret Constitution................................................... 135
Cooper v. Aaron (1958): Judicial Review, Interpret Constitution........................................................... 135
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Bd. Ed. (1971): 14th Amendment, Segregation.............................. 136
Freeman v. Pitts (1992): 14th Amendment, School Desegregation.......................................................... 136
Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee (1816): Supremacy Clause, Judicial Review............................................... 136
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819): Implied Power, 10th Amendment........................................................ 137
US Term Limits v. Thornton (1995): 10th Amendment, Term Limits..................................................... 137
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824): Commerce Clause, Federal v. States............................................................. 138
US v. E.C. Knight (1895): Commerce, Anti-Trust...................................................................................... 138
Champion v. Ames [lottery case] (1903): Commerce.............................................................................. 139
Swift & Co. v. US (1905): Commerce, “Current of Commerce”............................................................ 139
The Shreveport Rate Case (1914): Commerce, “close and substantial relation”................................ 139
Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918): Commerce, 10th Amendment................................................................. 140
NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin (1937) Commerce Clause, New Deal legislation....................................... 140
US v. Darby (1941): Commerce Clause, Child Labor, Manufacturing................................................. 141
Heart of Atlanta Motel (1964): Commerce Clause, Civil Rights Act 1964......................................... 141
Katzenbach v. McClung (1964): Commerce Clause, Civil Rights Act 1964........................................ 141
US v. Lopez (1995): Commerce Clause, Guns in school zone................................................................ 142
South Dakota v. Dole (1987): Commerce Clause, 21st Amendment..................................................... 143
Missouri v. Holland (1920): 10th Amendment............................................................................................ 143
Katzenbach v. Morgan (S.Car.) (1966): 14th A., Due Process, Literacy to Vote................................... 143
Boerne City v. Flores (1997): 1st A. Free exercise v. 14th A. Legislative authority................................ 143
Jones v. Mayer Co. (1968): 13th Amendment, Equal Housing................................................................ 144
Garcia v. San Antonio Metro Transit Auth. (1985) 10th A., Federalism................................................. 145
New York v. United States (1992): 10th Amendment, Supremacy Clause............................................ 145
Printz v. United States (1997): 10th A., Commerce Clause, Original Intent........................................... 146
Cooley v. Board of Wardens (1852): Federalism, Concurrent Powers.................................................. 147
City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey (1978): Dormant Commerce Clause.............................................. 147
Kassel v. Consolidated Freightways Corp. (1981): Safety v. Commerce.............................................. 148
West Lynn Creamery, Inc. v. Healy (1994): Interstate Commerce....................................................... 148
Corfield v. Coryell (1823): Privilege and Immunity Clause..................................................................... 148
United Bldg. v. Camden (1984) Privilege & Immunity v. Commerce Clause...................................... 149
Youngstown Co. v. Sawyer (1952): Separation of Powers, Emergency power.................................... 149
US v. Curtiss-Wright Corp. (1936) Separation of Power, External v. Internal...................................... 149
Dames & Moore v. Regan (1981): Implicit powers................................................................................... 149
Korematsu v. United States (1944): Emergency Executive Order.......................................................... 149
United States v. Nixon (1974): Executive Privilege................................................................................... 150
Clinton v. Jones (1997): Separation of Powers, Presidential Immunity................................................. 151
Mistretta v. United States (1989) “Non delegation” of Congressional Power....................................... 151
INS v. Chadha (1983): Legislative Veto...................................................................................................... 151
Clinton v. City of New York (1998): Separation of Powers, Line Item Veto........................................ 152
Bowsher v. Synar: (1986): Separation of Powers...................................................................................... 152
Morrison v. Olson (1988): Separation of Powers, Independent Counsel............................................... 152
Northern Pipeline Co. v. Marathon (1982): Separation of powers, delegation..................................... 152
Commodity Futures T.C. v. Schor (1986): Separation of Power, delegation........................................ 153
Ex Parte McCardle (1869) Separation of Powers, Exceptions clause.................................................... 153
Baker v. Carr (1962): Limits on Judicial Power, Political Questions....................................................... 154
Nixon v. United States (1993): Limits, Political Question......................................................................... 154
Raines v. Byrd (1997): Limits, Standing...................................................................................................... 154
Allen v. Wright (1984): Limits, Standing...................................................................................................... 155
Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife (1975): Limits, Standing.......................................................................... 155
Missouri v. Jenkins (II) (1990): Limit, Scope of remedy.......................................................................... 155
Missouri v Jenkins (III) (1995): Limits Jurisdiction................................................................................... 156
Fletcher v. Peck (1810): Economic Liberties, Property Rights................................................................. 156
Ogden v. Saunders (1827): Economic Liberties, Contracts Clause........................................................ 157
Calder v. Bull: (1798): Economic Liberties, Ex post facto....................................................................... 157
The Slaughter House Cases (1873): Economic Liberties, 13th, 14th A, Monopolies............................. 158
Palko v. Connecticut (1937): Double Jeopardy, Due Process (14th A.).................................................. 158
Adamson v. California (1947): 5th A. not part of Due Process (14th A.)................................................. 159
Skinner v. Oklahoma (1942): Due Process, Sterilization.......................................................................... 159
Lochner v. New York (1905): Substantive Due Process, Freedom to Contract.................................... 160
Bailey v. Alabama (1910): 13th A., Race Discrimination......................................................................... 160
West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937): 5th, 14th A., Freedom to Contract................................................... 161
Williamson v. Lee Optical (1955): 14th A., Due Process, Judicial Power................................................ 161
Meyer v. Nebraska (1923): 14th A., Due Process, Privacy........................................................................ 162
Poe v. Ullman (1961): 14th A., Due Process, Individual Rights, “Ripeness”.......................................... 162
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965): 14th, 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 9th A., Privacy........................................................ 163
Roe v. Wade (1973): Privacy, Abortion (9th, 14th A.)................................................................................. 163
Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992): Privacy, Abortion......................................................................... 164
Bowers v. Hardwick (1986): Fundamental Rights, Sodomy, 8th A......................................................... 165
Washington v. Glucksberg (1997): Privacy, Right to Die, 14th A............................................................. 166
Railway Express Agency v. New York (1949): 14th A., Rational Basis review..................................... 166
FCC v. Beach Communications (1993): 5th, 14th A, Rational Basis Review........................................ 167
Bradwell v. Illinois (1873): 14th A., Gender Discrimination...................................................................... 167
Frontiero v. Richardson (1973): 5th A., Gender Discrimination................................................................ 168
Craig v. Boren (1976): 14th A., Gender Discrimination.............................................................................. 168
U.S. v. Virginia (1996): 14th A., Gender Discrimination............................................................................. 168
Watkins v. U.S. Army (1989): 14th A, Gay Discrimination, Status v. Conduct..................................... 170
Romer v. Evans (1996): 14th A., Gay Discrimination, political participation........................................ 170
Baehr v. Lewin (1993): Gay Marriage, Equal Rights................................................................................ 170
Cases
Adamson v. California---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 130, 199
Adkins v. Children’s Hospital-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 139, 141
Allen v. Wright------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 63, 64, 196
Amalgamated Meat Cutters v. Connally-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 82, 97
Baehr v. Lewin--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 209
Bailey v. Alabama--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 141, 161, 201
Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 40
Baker v. Carr------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 67, 71, 143, 195
Barron v. Baltimore--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 128
Barron v. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 130
Bolling v. Sharpe------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 123, 179