How to Use equal protection in a Sentence

equal protection

noun

• The Supreme Court ruled at the time that the state of Texas had not violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Dec. 2019
• That’s the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
• But treating like cases alike is crucial to the equal protection of the laws.
  — Alan M. Dershowitz, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2022
• The case opened the door for equal protection under the law, but the work continues today.
  — National Geographic, 22 Oct. 2020
• And the Constitution says that no state can deprive any person of the equal protection of the laws.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• And all of these cases could tell us a lot about how the court is interpreting the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2022
• Kepley is white, and the 14th Amendment deals with equal protection under the law and due process.
  — Adam Lichtenstein, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Sep. 2021
• The court reversed a lower court finding and said that the law does not violate the equal protections clause.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2023
• West Flagler may decide to sue again over the issue of equal protection rather than the issue of where the betting takes place.
  — Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 17 June 2024
• But while Brown's decision stemmed from the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause, Loving stemmed from it and the due process clause.
  — TheWeek, 14 Oct. 2020
• The Justice Department said the laws in both states violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
  — NBC News, 9 Feb. 2022
• The justices could have taken a leap toward equal protection in Roe.
  — New York Times, 20 May 2022
• Such a shift would most likely work against the defendants who most need equal protection under the law.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 6 Nov. 2018
• With mothers like these, the fight for liberty and equal protection is raising a new army.
  — Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2022
• And all of them refer to rights such as equal protection, speech, and assembly, any of which could have an effect on election law.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2022
• There could even be a federal role in fighting such crimes, if states fail to provide Asian Americans the equal protection of the laws.
  — The Editors, National Review, 14 Apr. 2021
• Orr argues the practice violates the equal protection and due process clauses of the 14th Amendment.
  — Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 10 Nov. 2020
• In 2017, the case went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which affirmed the lower court’s ruling that the districts violated the plaintiffs’ equal protection rights.
  — Joey Flechas, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• The company grandly invokes the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
  — Owen Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• In 2000, the Supreme Court looked at the issue of equal protection, which requires the government to treat individuals in the same way.
  — Kristine Phillips, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2020
• Sure, there was still inequality of racial status despite the equal protection of the law as written in the 14th Amendment.
  — Arkansas Online, 11 Oct. 2020
• In the contexts of race and gender, Justice O’Connor’s impact on the court’s equal protection jurisprudence was deep.
  — Linda Greenhouse, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• And so that clearly violates the equal protection clause.
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 16 Sep. 2021
• The 14th Amendment requires equal protection under the law.
  — Jon Campbell, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2020
• Day wants balance, though, and that means equal protection for his quarterbacks.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 14 Oct. 2021
• The fight over what equal protection truly means has split the country since the Reconstruction era that followed the Civil War.
  — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• The lawsuit argues that the law is invalid under the due process and equal protection clauses of the state constitution.
  — David Eggert, chicagotribune.com, 7 Apr. 2022
• The Ute Tribe later expanded the suit and added Utah as a defendant, accusing the state of denying the tribe due process and equal protection under the law.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Sep. 2021
• In doing so, the appeals court agreed that the plaintiffs would likely succeed with their claims that the law violates the U.S. Constitution’s equal protection clause.
  — Nick Sullivan, The Arizona Republic, 10 Sep. 2024
• The high court reversed a lower court’s dismissal of that lawsuit and instructed the lower court to consider whether the measure violates the equal protection rights of voters.
  — Margery A. Beck, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 June 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024