Clark v. Legion Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• applying strict scrutiny to general assistance program that deemed income of alien's sponsor to be available to support alien; rejecting argument that rational basis should apply because statute paralleled scheme used in determining Federal benefit eligibility
• applying strict scrutiny to general assistance program that deemed income of alien’s sponsor to be available to support alien; rejecting argument that rational basis should apply because statute paralleled scheme used in determining Federal benefit eligibility
• fourteenth amendment to United States constitution violated by laws that “ ‘[impose] a lifetime hardship on a discrete class of children not accountable for their disabling status’ ” as illegal aliens
• “preservation of the state fisc was not a compelling interest”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).