The claim is that the one man, one woman definition violates the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of equal protection.
Basically, Bowers was wrong, Bowers was always wrong, this law fails rational basis, society has been moving in the opposite direction, the Fourteenth Amendment protects liberty!
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Distributor Authentic Beverages, craft brewer Jester King, and brewpub Zax challenged these and other rules as violations of the First Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Commerce Clause.
The fourteenth amendment argument was particularly interesting.
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Uses the Fourteenth Amendment, Equal Protection clause.
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The Center for Constitutional Rights claims stop-and-frisk violates the Constitution's Fourth Amendment, which prohibits illegal searches and seizures as well as the equal-protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which is often invoked to fight laws seen as racially discriminatory.
The Center for Constitutional Rights claims the stop-and-frisk policy violates the Constitution's Fourth Amendment, which prohibits illegal searches and seizures as well as the equal-protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which is often invoked to fight laws seen as racially discriminatory.
The Center for Constitutional Rights, which brought the lawsuit on behalf of several individuals, claims the policy violates the Constitution's Fourth Amendment, which prohibits illegal searches and seizures, as well as the equal-protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which is often invoked to fight laws seen as racially discriminatory.
Soon after the Colorado Legislature passed the statute, "sidewalk counselors" -- anti-abortion activists -- sued, challenging the constitutionality of the "knowingly obstruct" clause under the First Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendments.
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