Legal Opinion
Kahn v. Shevin
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 24, 1974No. 73-78PublishedCited by 362 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Douglas
Since at least 1885, Florida has provided for some form of property tax exemption for widows.1 The current law granting all widows an annual $500 exemption, Fla. Stat.
§ 196.202 (Supp. 1974-1975), has been essentially unchanged since 1941.2 Appellant Kahn is a widower who livés in Florida and applied for the exemption to the Dade County Tax Assessor’s Office. It was denied be-: cause the statute offers no analogous benefit for widowers.-Kahn then sought a declaratory judgment in the Circuit Court for Dade County, Florida, and that court held the statute violative of the Equal Protection Clause…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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3Cited by362 opinions
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- Weinberger v. WiesenfeldSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Orr v. OrrSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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