528 U.S. 62 (2000) Cited 2,246 times 9 Legal Analyses
Holding that the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, 29 U.S.C. § 626(b), effectively abrogated states’ sovereign immunity by incorporating the Fair Labor Standards Act's cause of action against a "public agency," which the FLSA statutorily defined to include "any agency of ... a State, or a political subdivision of a State," 29 U.S.C. §§ 203(x), 216(b)
517 U.S. 620 (1996) Cited 1,264 times 13 Legal Analyses
Holding unlawful a state law that precluded local ordinances from protecting homosexuals from discrimination because it "seems inexplicable by anything but animus toward the class it affects"
515 U.S. 200 (1995) Cited 1,063 times 11 Legal Analyses
Holding race-based affirmative action subject to strict judicial scrutiny, and noting that, “to the extent (if any) that Fullilove held federal racial classifications to be subject to a less rigorous standard, it is no longer controlling”
26 U.S.C. § 2056 Cited 621 times 10 Legal Analyses
Requiring that the surviving spouse be given a general power of appointment over trust assets in order for the property to qualify for the marital deduction