Rhode Island Depositors Economic Protection Corp. v. Brown

In this case, the Rhode Island Supreme Court set out the standard of scrutiny with which to view the constitutionality of laws that discriminate based on gender: “If an act employs a gender-based classification, it is subject to a middle-tier scrutiny in which the classification must be substantially related to the achievement of the statutory objective.”

Topics

• Gender discrimination

Geographical location

• North America
• United States
• Rhode Island

Keywords

• constitutional rights

Year

• 1995

External URL

• Rhode Island Depositors Economic Protection Corp. v. Brown

Court

• Supreme Court of Rhode Island

Type

• Domestic Case Law

Jurisdiction

• Rhode Island