Peltier, a student’s parent, along with two other parents, filed suit alleging violations of the Equal Protection Clause and Title IX. The plaintiffs alleged that requiring female students to wear ...

The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides that: "No State shall … deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” Yet many state universities give ...

2018-04-12T06:51:15-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/711/20180412065131001_hd.jpgThe Equal Protection Clause: Creating a More Perfect Union was one of the second ...

The Eighth Circuit sticks with its earlier views on the subject, but earlier this year the Tenth Circuit departed from the majority view on the subject. Today's case is Free the Nipple, Inc. v. City ...

A North Carolina school’s dress code perpetuated “harmful” gender stereotypes and violated the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause, a U.S. appeals court found. By McKenna Oxenden A North Carolina ...

Dozens of other states have embraced some version of an Equal Rights Amendment in their constitutions. New Yorkers will get a chance to vote on whether to expand the class of people protected against ...

The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is exactly like a similar provision in the Fifth Amendment, which only restricts the federal government. It states that no person shall be “deprived ...

Can the Equal Protection Clause Preserve Some Rights if Abortion Rights Are Gone? Although the leaked opinion also debunked equal protection as a basis for protecting abortions, that approach has a ...

A federal judge in Washington on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from banning transgender people from serving in the military, ruling that the plan violated the Constitution’s equal ...