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Windsor v. The United States Of America

MEMORANDUM OF LAW in Support re: 28 MOTION for Summary Judgment.. Document

74 Cited authorities

  1. Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center, Inc.

    473 U.S. 432 (1985)   Cited 9,704 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that mental disability is not a quasi-suspect class

  2. Edelman v. Jordan

    415 U.S. 651 (1974)   Cited 8,120 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that waiver may be found in "express language" or by "overwhelming implications from the text"

  3. Kimel v. Florida Board of Regents

    528 U.S. 62 (2000)   Cited 2,234 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)

  4. Beard v. Banks

    548 U.S. 521 (2006)   Cited 1,692 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that encouraging progress toward rehabilitation serves legitimate penological objectives

  5. Plyler v. Doe

    457 U.S. 202 (1982)   Cited 3,012 times   15 Legal Analyses
    Holding that States cannot deny to illegal aliens the free public education they provide to citizens and legally documented aliens

  6. Lawrence v. Texas

    539 U.S. 558 (2003)   Cited 1,153 times   33 Legal Analyses
    Holding statute that criminalizes two persons of same sex engaging in intimate sexual conduct unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment

  7. Romer v. Evans

    517 U.S. 620 (1996)   Cited 1,258 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"

  8. San Antonio School District v. Rodriguez

    411 U.S. 1 (1973)   Cited 3,090 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding that classifications on the basis of geography are not suspect

  9. Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena

    515 U.S. 200 (1995)   Cited 1,057 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”

  10. Anderson v. Celebrezze

    460 U.S. 780 (1983)   Cited 1,511 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that Ohio statute requiring independent candidates to file statements of candidacy by March to appear on November ballot was unconstitutional

  11. Rule 56 - Summary Judgment

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 56   Cited 328,681 times   158 Legal Analyses
    Holding a party may move for summary judgment on any part of any claim or defense in the lawsuit

  12. Section 2056 - Bequests, etc., to surviving spouse

    26 U.S.C. § 2056   Cited 620 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

  13. Section 2010 - Unified credit against estate tax

    26 U.S.C. § 2010   Cited 286 times   31 Legal Analyses
    Establishing the basic exclusion amount for a person dying in 2011 at $5,000,000

  14. Section 7 - Marriage

    1 U.S.C. § 7   Cited 152 times   9 Legal Analyses
    Containing no money-mandating provisions