 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 658 pages
...unconstitutional, on the grounds that it impaired the obligations of a contract, deprived it of its property without due process of law, and denied it the equal protection of the laws. The case was taken to the Supreme Court of the United States, and 121 124 it was there held that tne... | |
 | National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research Board - Highway engineering - 1953 - 906 pages
...company's lighting system, impaired the obligation of the company's contract and deprived it of its property without due process of law, and denied it the equal protection of the laws. The Supreme Court of California held that the constitutional amendment authorized the city to enact... | |
 | Hjalte Rasmussen - Law - 1986 - 590 pages
...2 since the complaint alleges an apportionment to be in operation which deprives the appellants of the equal protection of the laws in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Further, the claim is not 'so attenuated and unsubstantial as to be absolutely devoid of merit'. Moreover,... | |
 | Leslie Friedman Goldstein - Law - 1988 - 660 pages
...introduction to Taylor v. Louisiana in chapter 2. constitutes a denial to males 18-20 years of age of the Equal Protection of the Laws in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. . . . We first address a preliminary question of standing. Appellant Craig attained the age of 21 after... | |
 | Richard B. Sherman - History - 1992 - 284 pages
...Bill of Rights of the constitution of Virginia, and that he had been denied due process of the law and the equal protection of the laws in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.8 Beyond doubt, this petition had raised some troubling questions,... | |
 | Mary Catherine Miller - Law - 1993 - 280 pages
...rate did not return 6 percent on the book value of the investment, Morrow enjoined the county rate. It "deprived the company of property without due process of law and denied it the equal protection of the law."39 In January 1904, however, the US Supreme Court overturned Morrow's decision, declaring that... | |
 | Charles J. McClain - History - 1994 - 400 pages
...and nationality to which the petitioners belong."142 But such discrimination constituted a denial of the equal protection of the laws in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. As Matthews put it in words that have since been repeated numerous times in American constitutional... | |
 | Harold Joseph Laski - Political Science - 1997 - 400 pages
...and void in that it deprived the Gas Company of its property without due process of law and denied to it the equal protection of the laws in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States .... "and, after the requisite intermediate stages, the issue... | |
 | Arthur S. Leonard - Gay military personnel - 1997 - 424 pages
...General Michael Bowers withdrew his offer of employment because she is a homosexual and thus denied her the equal protection of the laws in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. I do so because, as the court concludes, the record does not permit the inference that the Attorney... | |
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It is clear that the cause of action is one which "arises under" the Federal Constitution. The complaint alleges that the 1901 statute effects an apportionment that deprives the appellants of the equal protection of the laws in violation of the Fourteenth... 
