{"id":657,"date":"2015-10-12T15:21:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T15:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cstarger\/?p=657"},"modified":"2022-06-11T20:14:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T20:14:22","slug":"obergefell-equal-protection-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cstarger\/2015\/10\/12\/obergefell-equal-protection-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Obergefell: Equal Protection for Children?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week on this forum, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cstarger\/2015\/10\/05\/spaeth-projection-non-marital-children-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I mapped out<\/a>\u00a0a line of Supreme Court equal protection cases know as the non-marital children cases. These cases were featured in a key amicus brief submitted by the <a href=\"http:\/\/sblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/14-556-scholarschildren.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scholars of the Consitutional Rights of Children<\/a> in the <em>Obergefell<\/em> litigation. Although Justice Kennedy did cite that amicus brief in his majority opinion, he notably failed to cite any of the underlying non-marital children cases. Nonetheless, I wonder\u00a0whether it would be fair to characterize <em>Obergefell<\/em> as &#8212; among other things &#8212; a case about equal protection for children.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_661\" style=\"width: 1039px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/home.ubalt.edu\/id86mp66\/Faculty%20Share\/CatherineSmith\/EP_Children_Obergefell_casetext.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-661\" class=\"wp-image-661 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cstarger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/273\/2015\/10\/EP_Children_Obergefell_casetext.jpg\" alt=\"EP_Children_Obergefell_casetext\" width=\"1029\" height=\"699\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Obergefell, Equal Protection, and Children<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The map above puts this question in visual form by displaying the five main cases discussed in the amicus brief &#8212; <em>Palmore<\/em>, <em>Plyer<\/em>, <em>Caban<\/em>, <em>Weber<\/em>, and <em>Levy<\/em>. Comparing the equal protection analysis in these cases to that offered by Kennedy in <em>Obergefell<\/em> is potentially instructive. Readers interested in doing this can do so by (a)\u00a0clicking on the image above to open a full-sized map\u00a0with links to underlying opinions; \u00a0and\/or (b)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/home.ubalt.edu\/id86mp66\/Faculty%20Share\/CatherineSmith\/EP_Children_Obergefell_spaeth.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clicking here <\/a>to open an identical map with links to Supreme Court Database information about the cases.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week on this forum, I mapped out\u00a0a line of Supreme Court equal protection cases know as the non-marital children cases. These cases were featured in a key amicus brief submitted by the Scholars of the Consitutional Rights of Children &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cstarger\/2015\/10\/12\/obergefell-equal-protection-for-children\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cstarger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cstarger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cstarger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cstarger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cstarger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cstarger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cstarger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cstarger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cstarger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cstarger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}