MICHAEL S. HOOKER, BARBARA M. HOOKER and MICHAEL R. HOOKER v. CHARLES ATKINS, JR.

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• examining equal protection claims by first asking whether plaintiff’s class is similarly situated to the claimed disparate group and, if so, whether classification is justified
• rejecting equal protection claim because two groups were “not comparable for equal protection purposes” and the government had “different interests” related to each group
• “The Sixth Amendment guarantees defendants the right to ‘effective assistance of counsel,’ which includes ‘a duty of loyalty’ and ‘a duty to avoid conflicts of interest.’” (quoting Strickland, 466 U.S. at 686, 688)
• setting forth elements of a class-based equal protection claim

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