Syllabus

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

404 U.S. 71

Reed v. Reed

APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF IDAHO

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' estate is based solely on a discrimination prohibited by and therefore violative of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

BURGER, C.J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court.