Vaval v. Stanco, LLC

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that a state’s interest in providing for the just and orderly disposition of property at death is “of considerable magnitude.”
• stating that the Court has long recognized that a state’s goal to provide for the just and orderly disposition of property at death “is an area with which the States have an interest of considerable magnitude”
• rejecting equal protection challenge to statute which precluded the asserted illegitimate son of intestate from taking under intestacy laws because there was no court declaration of paternity during intestate’s lifetime
• “We have long recognized” that a state’s goal to provide for the just and orderly disposition of property at death “is an area with which the States have an interest of considerable magnitude.”
• plurality opinion of Powell, J.
• plurality opinion of Powell, J.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).