Reed v. Reed
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Supreme Court of the United States
Reed v. Reed
Appeal from the Supreme Court of Idaho
No. 70-4 Argued: October 19, 1971 --- Decided: November 22, 1971
A mandatory provision of the Idaho probate code that gives preference to men over women when persons of the same entitlement class apply for appointment as administrator of a decedent's estate is based solely on a discrimination prohibited by and therefore violative of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).
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