United States v. Shalynda Harris

How courts have described this case

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• holding that people with disabilities “are not a suspect or quasi-suspect class.”
• holding that people with disabilities “are not a suspect or quasi-suspect class.”
• applying City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Ctr., 473 U.S. 432 (1985), and citing More v. Farrier, 984 F.2d 269, 271 (8th Cir. 1993), DeVargas v. Mason & Hanger-Silas Mason Co., 844 F.2d 714, 725 (10th Cir. 1988
• “[peremptory strikes of class members not entitled to heightened scrutiny remain ‘challenges without cause, without explanation and without judicial scrutiny.’ [Cit.]”
• disabled individuals are not a suspect class and therefore subject to rational basis review
• “If the government had struck Ms. Wilson because of an irrational animosity toward or fear of disabled people, this would not be a legitimate reason for excluding her from the jury.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).