Exam 1 - Other

Question 1

Craig v Boren (1976)

Answer 1

Court ruled that gender classifications are permissible if they serve “important governmental objectives” and are “substantially related” to the achievement of those objectives.

Question 2

Loving v. Virginia (1967)

Answer 2

Court ruled that the ban on interracial marriage and subsequent prison sentence of 1-5 years was based solely on “invidious racial discrimination”, “subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment”, and that any such “classification” was unconstitutional.