Madisonian Equal Protection

Equal Protection and Peremptory Challenges

Colorblind segregation: Equal protection as a bar to neighborhood integration

Between the Tiers : the New [ Est ] Equal Protection

This Essay (in Sections I and II) briefly traces the evolution of modem equal protection doctrine in order to point (in Section III) to a disparate but substantial group of equal protection decisions that do not fit, and that the Court did not pretend to fit, into one of the officially identified three tiers of Equal Protection Clause analysis. The Essay (in Section IV) defends the viewpoints, ...

Solicitation for Prostitution: Privacy, Free Speech and Equal Protection

The War between Disparate Impact and Equal Protection

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbids job discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.1 Title VII was originally enacted as a regulation of interstate commerce and applied only to private employers. In 1972, however, the Act was extended to the public sector pursuant to Congress’s Fourteenth Amendment authority to ensure that ‘‘[n]o State shall . . . deny ...