Rias v. Henderson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that statutes affecting fundamental constitutional rights are subject to strict scrutiny
• holding that a statute cutting off child support for illegitimate children at the age of sixteen was unconstitutional because there was no reason “for denying such an essential right to a child simply because its natural father has not married its mother”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).