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🏛️ Califano v Goldfarb: Goldfarb, a widower, applied for survivors' benefits. His application was denied because he wasn't receiving half his support from his wife at the time of her death. This requirement wasn't imposed on widows whose husbands recently passed. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 22, 2020 Hibernated

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Ginsburg argued that this statute violated the Equal Protection Clause as well as the Due Process Clause. The trial court agreed, and the Supreme Court later struck down the law in another case as unfair to people on trial. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 22, 2020 Hibernated

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Ginsburg represented Goldfarb, and in a 5-4 decision, the statute was ruled as unconstitutional sex discrimination. This victory wouldn’t have been possible without the groundwork she had established in earlier cases. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 22, 2020 Hibernated