- Source: Kahn v. Shevin
Kahn v. Shevin, 416 U.S. 351 (1974), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that granting widows a bonus property tax exemption not available to widowers does not violate the Equal Protection Clause because it has a "fair and substantial relation to the object of the legislation." After holding a gender distinction that benefited men void in Reed v. Reed (1971), the Court was presented with cases like Kahn that dealt with gender distinctions that benefited women. The court in Kahn splintered over the question, but later held unanimously in Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld (1975) that a similar provision did violate the Equal Protection Clause.
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Text of Kahn v. Shevin, 416 U.S. 351 (1974) is available from: Cornell Findlaw Justia
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Kahn v. Shevin
- Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Fuentes v. Shevin
- United States v. Wong Kim Ark
- Lochner v. New York
- Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
- Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld
- Intermediate scrutiny
- Grutter v. Bollinger
