Patch v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• expressing reservations about the consistency of Supreme Court’s tiers of constitutional review in this area
• distinguishing cases that absolutely prohibit the right to marry from those that “merely plae[e] a non-oppressive burden on the decision to marry, or on those who are already married.”
• collecting cases that apply rational basis test in reviewing anti-fraternization and anti-nepotism policies
• \[T]he level of scrutiny to be applied to state action impinging on the right to marry is invariant with respect to the precise -13- constitutional provision undergirding that right.\
• public school teacher required to transfer to another school after she married another teacher

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).