JD Supra

SCOTUS to Review Whether State Gender-Based Sports Designations Violate Title IX and Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment

Does Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prevent states from designating separate girls’ and boys’ sports teams based on biological ...
PBS

Due Process Clause, Equal Protection Clause and Disenfranchising Felons

The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is exactly like a similar provision in the Fifth Amendment, which only restricts the federal government. It states that no person shall be “deprived ...
JD Supra

Supreme Court Holds Ban on Treatment for Transgender Minors Does Not Violate Equal Protection Clause

The US Supreme Court on June 18, 2025 rejected a challenge under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause to Tennessee law SB1, which prohibits healthcare providers from dispensing puberty ...
Courthouse News Service

California pushes back against federal demand to bar transgender students from sport of choice

Students at McLean High School in McLean, Va., walk out of classes Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, to protest Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin's proposed changes to the state's guidance on school district ...
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

OPINION: No constitutional equality proves we need the ERA

When this country was founded, women had no rights. As late as 2010, then-Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said in an interview that women still don’t. It wasn’t until 1971 that the court ruled ...