Basim Esmail, Zabco Enterprises, Incorporated, and Nazco Enterprises, Incorporated v. Samuel T. MacRane Jr.

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• holding that the government may not engage in “a spiteful effort to ‘get’ [an individual] for reasons wholly unre- lated to any legitimate state objective”
• holding that when “action taken by the state, whether in the form of prosecution or otherwise, was a spiteful effort to ‘get’ [the plaintiff] for reasons wholly unrelated to any legitimate state ob‐ jective” that action violated the Equal Protection Clause (em‐ phasis added)
• stating that “equal protection does not just mean treating identically situated persons identically. If a bad person is treated better than a good person, this is just as much an example of unequal treatment .... ”
• holding that when “action taken by the state, whether in the form of prosecution or otherwise, was a spiteful effort to ‘get’ [the plaintiff] for reasons wholly unrelated to any legitimate state ob‐ jective” that action violated the Equal Protection Clause (em‐ phasis added)
• holding that when “action taken by the state, whether in the form of prosecution or otherwise, was a spiteful effort to ‘get’ [the plaintiff] for reasons wholly unrelated to any legitimate state ob‐ jective” that action violated the Equal Protection Clause (em‐ phasis added)
• holding that when “action taken by the state, whether in the form of prosecution or otherwise, was a spiteful effort to ‘get’ [the plaintiff] for reasons wholly unrelated to any legitimate state ob‐ jective” that action violated the Equal Protection Clause (em‐ phasis added)

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