Gallagher could have wider impact, however, because it forces the Court to dive into the tricky area of disparatetreatment versus disparate impact in the area of housing.
" The court said, "Having granted the right to vote on equal terms, the State may not by later arbitrary and disparatetreatment, value one person's vote over another.
This is a big deal, because it effectively means that Colorado has narrowed the disparate tax treatment of employer-sponsored and individually-purchased insurance.
Less government is what FCC Chairman Michael Powell had in mind: "To subject a global network to disparate local regulatory treatment by 51 different jurisdictions would be to destroy the very qualities that embody the technological marvel that is the Internet, " he said.