Legal Opinion
In Re the Estate of Wilson
New York Court of Appeals
Decided July 12, 1983PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Chief Judge Cooke.
These appeals present the question whether the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when a court permits the administration of private charitable trusts according to the testators’ intent to finance the education of male students and not female students. When a court applies trust law that neither encourages, nor affirmatively promotes, nor compels private discrimination but allows parties to engage in private selection in the devise or bequest of their property, that choice will not be attributable to the State and subjected to…
2Cases cited34 opinions
- Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Flagg Bros., Inc. v. BrooksSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Blum v. YaretskySupreme Court of the United States · 1982
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3Cited by39 opinions
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- SHAD Alliance v. Smith Haven MallNew York Court of Appeals · 1985
- In re the Estate of WalkerNew York Court of Appeals · 1985
- People v. KernAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1989
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