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| case where a woman who clubbed her adulterous husband to death with a baseball bat argued that a jury with women on it would have been more sympathetic to her case and upheld her claim of temporary insanity. The Supreme Court disagreed, basing its opinion on “reasonable classification” saying that in not selecting women for jury Florida was not discriminating against women because women could volunteer for service. The Supreme Court noted that women are “still regarded as the center of home and family life.” But by employing the practice of excluding women from jury service Florida and other states were actually protecting women from the “filth” of the courtroom. |
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| The Supreme Court upheld a federal law banning third trimester so called partial birth abortions, known medically as intact dilation and extraction. current law for abortion? |
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| a statute is presumed to be unconstitutional unless the state can provide "compelling affirmative justifications"—that means that the law must be necessary to attain a permissible goal and be the least restrictive means to that goal? |
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| the Supreme Court finally extended Fourteenth Amendment protections to gender as well as race. |
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| ____ was not made a suspect classification but created an intermediate standard of review for such cases. |
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| Key groups include the ____ ___ ___ ___ and ____ Fund (MALDEF) and the ____ ___ Legal Defense and Educational Fund. These groups have been quite successful in expanding voting rights and opportunities for Latinos. |
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| mexican american legal defense and educational; puerto rican |
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| denied funding for education for illegal immigrant children? |
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| the Court ruled that privacy rights did not extend to homosexuals even if they were consenting adults in private. |
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