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A state statute provides that eligible residents "shall receive" monthly disability benefits unless the agency finds one of five listed grounds for termination. The agency cuts off a recipient's benefits after reviewi...
Citations: U.S. Const. amend. XIV, Board of Regents v. Roth, Mathews v. Eldridge, Goldberg v. Kelly
A state university employed a laboratory supervisor under a civil-service statute providing that permanent employees may be discharged only for cause. After a chemical spill, the university president immediately suspe...
Citations: U.S. Const. amend. XIV, Board of Regents v. Roth, Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill, Mathews v. Eldridge
...before adopting the closures. Which statement is most accurate under equal protection? The best answer gives the Arlington Heights rule: disparate impact matters, but discriminatory purpose is needed to trigger strict s...
Citations: U.S. Const. amend. XIV, Washington v. Davis, Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp.
A city employee, acting against city policy, mistakenly towed and crushed a parked car after reading the wrong address from a demolition order. The city had no advance notice that this particular mistake would occur....
Citations: U.S. Const. amend. XIV, Parratt v. Taylor, Hudson v. Palmer, Daniels v. Williams
...nminority subcontractor who lost a bid challenges the ordinance under equal protection. Which statement is most accurate? The best answer applies strict scrutiny to the city's express race-based contracting set-aside. U...
Citations: U.S. Const. amend. XIV, Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena, City of Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co., Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College
A city requires food-truck operators to obtain a sanitation license, pass a kitchen inspection, and pay an annual fee. A food-truck owner who failed the inspection argues that the ordinance violates substantive due pr...
Citations: U.S. Const. amend. XIV, Nebbia v. New York, Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc.
...igibility rules, and the child's parent brings a Fourteenth Amendment equal protection claim. Which statement is most accurate? The best answer avoids automatic labels and focuses on entwinement and state involvement in...
Citations: U.S. Const. amend. XIV, Brentwood Academy v. Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association, Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co., Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co.
...er who passed the academy's physical test challenges the policy under equal protection. Which statement is most accurate? The best answer applies intermediate scrutiny and rejects broad stereotypes about firefighting abi...
Citations: U.S. Const. amend. XIV, Craig v. Boren, United States v. Virginia
A state law bars any person who owes more than $5,000 in unpaid civil judgments from receiving a marriage license unless the creditor consents. An engaged couple challenges the law after one partner is denied a licens...
Citations: U.S. Const. amend. XIV, Loving v. Virginia, Zablocki v. Redhail, Obergefell v. Hodges
...answer distinguishes the parental liberty interest from the separate equal protection rule that education itself is not generally a fundamental right. U.S. Const. amend. XIV, Meyer v. Nebraska, Pierce v. Society of Sist...
Citations: U.S. Const. amend. XIV, Meyer v. Nebraska, Pierce v. Society of Sisters, Troxel v. Granville
...anent resident denied a janitor position challenges the statute under equal protection. Which statement best describes the governing equal protection framework? The best answer states the general state alienage rule and...
Citations: U.S. Const. amend. XIV, Graham v. Richardson, Sugarman v. Dougall, Foley v. Connelie, Mathews v. Diaz
...outside the preferred zip codes challenges both ordinances under the Equal Protection Clause. The city argues that both ordinances remedy past inequity and promote local economic development. Analyze the equal protectio...
Citations: U.S. Const. amend. XIV, Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena, Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp., Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College
...g. Parents of excluded children sue the league and the city under the Equal Protection Clause. The league argues that it is private and that, in any event, age, disability, and wealth classifications are not suspect. Ana...
Citations: U.S. Const. amend. XIV, Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co., Brentwood Academy v. Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association, City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center, San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez
...o requested leave after the birth of his child also sues. Analyze the equal protection challenges to the academy's sex-based track exclusion, the equipment-carry test, and the parental leave rule. This essay tests interm...
Citations: U.S. Const. amend. XIV, United States v. Virginia, Craig v. Boren, Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs
State C enacted the Family Integrity Act. One section bars any person with more than $10,000 in unpaid civil debt judgments from obtaining a marriage license unless a judge finds that the person has made "substantial...
Citations: U.S. Const. amend. XIV, Loving v. Virginia, Zablocki v. Redhail, Troxel v. Granville, Washington v. Glucksberg
...at any failure to provide an interpreter is itself a violation of the Equal Protection Clause. A state and a private landlord challenge the Act. Congress argues that it may enforce equality and access to courts through b...
Citations: U.S. Const. amend. XIII, U.S. Const. amend. XIV, sec. 5, City of Boerne v. Flores, United States v. Morrison, Tennessee v. Lane, Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co.
...y state action that Congress considers unfair is now a constitutional equal protection violation. Which statement best describes Congress's Section 5 power? The best answer states the City of Boerne framework for Section...
Citations: U.S. Const. amend. XIV, sec. 5, City of Boerne v. Flores, United States v. Morrison
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