CRM/LAW C113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Maxwell Air Force Base, Enumerated Powers, Suspect Classification

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Criminology, Law and Society
• Course: CRM/LAW C113
• Professor: Hillary Berk

Document Summary

When sally and cecil"s son dies without a will, both sally (who was very close to her son) and cecil. Reed sought to be named the administrator of their son"s estate (the reeds were separated). The court appointed cecil as the administrator because the law stated that males must be preferred to females (primafetia) Assumed that males would be more interested in accounting/contracts/business. The lower court"s reasoning (based on efficiency) was arbitrary and not legitimate enough to justify gender discrimination under the equal protection clause. Gender will not be treated as a suspect classification like race. Q: in frontiero v. richardson, the court held that the military regulation on dependent benefits that treats men and women differently: A: does not bear a rational relationship to a legitimate state interest. Sharron frontiero - working as a physical therapist at maxwell air force base in alabama.