Supreme Court· 6/18/1992

Nordlinger v. Hahn

Citations

505 U.S. 1
112 S. Ct. 2326
120 L. Ed. 2d 1
1992 U.S. LEXIS 3688

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holding that the “Equal Protection Clause does not forbid classifications,” but “simply keeps governmental decisionmakers from treating differently persons who are in all relevant respects alike”
holding that the Equal Protection Clause “keeps governmental 19 decisionmakers from treating differently persons who are in all relevant respects alike”
holding that “the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office is not an entity for purposes of § 1983 liability”
holding that the Equal Protection Clause is generally satisfied “so long as there is a plausible policy reason for the classification”
holding that the Equal Protection Clause generally only prohibits “governmental decisionmakers from treating differently persons who are in all relevant respects alike”
holding that the legislature need not “actually articulate at any time the purpose or rationale supporting its classification”

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Judges: Blackmun, Rehnquist, White, O'Connor, Scaua, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, Ii-A, Stevens

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