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...suit alleges violations of the Constitution's first, fourth, and fourteenth amendments, as well as violations of New York state...
...March decision, the Supreme Court held that the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment did not permit a state to deny the right to vote to "new residents" while allowing "old residents" to vote...
...Supreme Court ruling brings women's rights under the protection of the Fourteenth Amendment for the first time. The Court based earlier rulings protecting the rights of blacks on the same amendment...
...have concluded that the arbitrary preference established in favor of males by the Idaho code cannot stand in the face of the Fourteenth Amendment's command that no state can deny thee equal protection of the laws to any person within its jurisdiction," Chief Justice Warren Burger said yesterday. He also said that legislatures may treat women differently only when the purpose of such treatment is reasonable...
...meantime, Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union lawyer Harvey M. Burg had filed a class action suit in Federal District Court on the behalf of four students who had been denied the right to register. Charging violations of the First, Fifth, Fourteenth and Twenty-Sixth Amendments, the suit sought to enjoin the Cambridge Election Commission from "subjecting students and other young persons to burdens of identification and proof and proceedings more onerous than those to which adults and other persons have been subjected" when attempting to register to vote...