Paul B. Owens v. William Barnes, Dauphin County Bureau of Elections, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Intervenor

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• holding the Equal Protection Clause applicable to Pennsylvania’s felon-restoration statute but rejecting the plaintiff’s claim on the merits
• expressing sincere doubt that the state could “disenfranchise similarly situated blue-eyed felons but not brown-eyed felons”
• upholding a statute that allowed unincarcerated felons to vote but disenfranchised incarcerated felons
• upholding under rational basis review a Pennsylvania law that disenfranchised only incarcerated felons

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).