equal protection
nounDefinition of equal protection
: a guarantee under the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that a state must treat an individual or class of individuals the same as it treats other individuals or classes in like circumstances
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In the lawsuit, filed last week in federal court, the pet stores say the statute violates the Constitution’s commerce and equal protection clauses and conflicts with a federal animal welfare law. — Scott Dance, baltimoresun.com, "Pet stores Just Puppies, Charm City Puppies sue Maryland, saying puppy mill law violates the Constitution," 27 Aug. 2019 Reed was a tipping point: Writing for a unanimous Court, Chief Justice Warren Burger held that constitutional equal protection applies to gender. — Britni De La Cretaz, Longreads, "Flagrant Foul: Benching Teen Moms Before Title IX," 14 Aug. 2019 Its demands sound innocuous enough: Israel already claims to give its Arab citizens equal protection under the law. — Michael Wines, New York Times, "Is B.D.S. Anti-Semitic? A Closer Look at the Boycott Israel Campaign," 27 July 2019 Such a shift would most likely work against the defendants who most need equal protection under the law. — Aja Romano, Vox, "Curtis Flowers was tried 6 times for the same crime. Now the Supreme Court will hear his case.," 6 Nov. 2018 Rewriting constitutions, declaring that public education for all ought to be a state right, equal protection under the law ought to be not only a federal thing, but ought to be in our state constitution. — John Hammontree | [email protected], al, "Rev. William Barber on building a moral coalition in the South, comparisons to MLK," 5 Aug. 2019 Their lawsuit makes several claims, including that the state law is racially discriminatory and violates equal protection. — Ivana Hrynkiw | [email protected], al.com, "Federal appeals court to hear arguments on Birmingham minimum wage hike," 24 June 2019 The 14th Amendment ostensibly guarantees equal protection under the law. — Stephanie Ebbert, BostonGlobe.com, "Women’s soccer wage fight revives battle for Equal Rights Amendment," 13 July 2019 Hazel had ruled in April to block the addition of the citizenship question, but found at the time that the voting rights activists failed to prove their equal protection rights were violated. — CBS News, "Maryland judge rules sufficient evidence to reopen 2020 census case citing racial motives," 25 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'equal protection.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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