Sentence examples for a violation of equal from inspiring English sources

Thus, he found a violation of equal protection.

Mr. Limon, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union's gay and lesbian rights project, challenged the Kansas law unsuccessfully in state court as a violation of equal protection.

It was unconstitutional not just because states wrote marriage laws but as a violation of equal protection under the Fifth Amendment.

By preventing states from correcting the counting errors that result from different voting technologies, the conservatives arguably precipitated a violation of equal treatment far larger than they one they claimed to avoid.

But Mr. Husted, who has pushed for bringing uniformity to election laws across the 88 counties in Ohio, said Tuesday that he found the ruling to be "stunning" and a violation of equal protection because voters would be treated differently.

Significantly, the court in Atlanta, which is not known as especially liberal, found that Alabama's statute requiring schools to keep a record of illegal immigrants was a violation of equal protection guarantees, without referring to Arizona.

She looked at the case and at the law and deemed the ban a violation of equal-protection language in the state's Constitution, which said that no privileges should be reserved for a limited class of citizens.

With respect to the equal protection question, we find a violation of the equal protection clause.

The First Circuit and several district courts have held the law unconstitutional, as a violation of the equal protection of the laws.

But in 2008, the Connecticut Supreme Court, in Kerrigan v Commissioner of Public Health, found the granting of civil unions to same-sex couples while denying them marriage rights to be a violation of the equal protection clause of the Connecticut Constitution.

If, as early reports suggest, Kennedy sees it as unconstitutional on states' rights grounds, and now as a violation of the equal opportunity clause, then what does that portend for how he might consider the Prop 8 case?