Legal Opinion
Chew v. State
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided July 7, 1987No. 1067, September Term, 1986PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MOYLAN, Judge.
The Background
On July 28, 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was ratified. The enduring part of that amendment has been its Section 1, which includes the three provisions that have come to be called 1) the privileges and immunities clause, 2) the due process clause, and 3) the equal protection clause. It is the equal protection clause that concerns us here. It provides: “No State shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
Within 12 years of ratification, the Supreme Court decided Strauder v. West…
2Cases cited63 opinions
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- Swain v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Taylor v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
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3Cited by29 opinions
- People v. KernNew York Court of Appeals · 1990
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- Lemley v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1992
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