Soberal-Perez v. Heckler

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that “Title VI does not cover direct benefit programs since these programs do not entail any . . . contractual relationship,” and thus holding that “Title VI was not intended to apply to Titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act”
• stating that “[l]anguage, by itself, does not identify members of a suspect class”
• affirming dismissal of equal 8 protection challenge to Secretary of Health and Human Services’ failure to provide forms in 9 Spanish because plaintiffs failed to suggest any evidence of discriminatory intent and legitimate 10 noninvidious purpose was obvious
• “Hispanics as an ethnic group do constitute a suspect class for the purpose of equal protection analysis . . . .”
• Title VI “was meant to cover only those situations where federal funding is given to a non-federal entity, which, in turn, provides financial assistance to the ultimate beneficiary.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).