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Supreme Court· 3/19/1975

Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld

Citations

  • 420 U.S. 636
  • 95 S. Ct. 1225
  • 43 L. Ed. 2d 514
  • 1975 U.S. LEXIS 48
  • 9 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 9998

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  • holding that the approach to Fifth Amendment equal protection claims is \precisely the same\ as under Fourteenth Amendment
  • holding that the approach to Fifth Amendment equal protection claims is “precisely the same” as under Fourteenth Amendment
  • holding that the Social Security Act’s disparate treatment of men and women on the basis of economic stereotypes violated due process
  • holding that a statute that treats widowers less favorably than widows — which, in the Title VII context, might have been called a “sex plus marital status” claim — violates the Equal Protection Clause
  • holding unconstitutional a Social Security classification that excluded fathers from receipt of child-in-care benefits available to mothers
  • holding unconstitutional a Social Security Act classification authorizing benefits to widows but not to widowers despite the fact that the justification for the differential treatment was \not entirely without empirical support\

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Judges: Brennan, Powell, Rehnquist, Douglas

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