Federal Intervention under the Fourteenth Amendment

The bakke case and the fourteenth amendment.

The abortion right, originalism, and the Fourteenth Amendment.

State and federal compliance with the Synar Amendment: federal fiscal year 1998.

BACKGROUND The Synar Amendment requires states and territories to enact a law prohibiting the sale of tobacco to minors and to enforce that law in a manner that could reasonably be expected to decrease the availability of tobacco to minors. OBJECTIVE To determine if the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and applicant states and territories are complying with the Synar Amendment. ...

Dialogic Fidelity: The Fourteenth Amendment, Historical Meaning, and Appropriate Scrutiny for Sex Discrimination

Last Term, the Supreme Court confronted constitutional issues of sex discrimination and search and seizure. First, in Atwater v. City of Lago Vista,1 the Court held that the Fourth Amendment creates no bar to the warrantless arrest of a citizen for a misdemeanor criminal offense. Then, in Nguyen v. INS,2 the Court upheld against an equal protection challenge a statute that imposed different req...

Fourteenth amendment--the right to refuse antipsychotic drugs masked by prison bars.