WOMEN'S RIGHTS

MULLER V. OREGON

• Argued 1/15/1908 Decided 2/24/1908
• OR enacted a law that limited women to 10 work hours in factories
• Supreme Court ruled there was no constitutional violation
• Law was upheld b/c OR attorney exported reports of harmful
• physical, social and emotional effects of women working long shifts

GRISWOLD V. CONN

• Argued: March 1965 Decided: June 1965
• -Connecticut criminalized any medical treatment to married women that
• prevented conception
• Supreme Court ruled 1st 3rd & 9th amendments created a right to privacy
• Made Connecticut law null and void

REED V. REED

• Argued 10/19/71 Decided 11/22/71
• conflict over the estate of their dead son, who had left his estate to his mother.
• father was given the property, both filed petitions with probate court in Idaho
• customary to rule in the favor of the men rather than the women.
• Based on the 14th amendment, the Supreme Court also declared Idaho's law unconstitutional.

ROE V. WADE

• Argued: December 1971 Re-Argued: October 1972
• Decided: January 1973
• Texas made abortion illegal unless it threatened the woman's life.
• Court decided that woman's right of abortion fell under a woman's rights of privacy
• Changed the laws of 46 states & stated that women were legally allowed abortions in the 1st trimester

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CRAIG V. BOREN

• OK prohibited sale of nonintoxicating beer to boys under 21 & girls 18
• Argued 10/5/76. Decided by burger court 1975-81 Decided by sate court 12/20/76
• violated equal protection clause of 14 amendment.
• Craig challenged as discriminatory.
• Females could get drunk & raped easy by no intoxicated males.

KYLLO V. UNITED STATES

• law enforcement agents used thermal imaging to detect hot spots outside of Kyollo's apartment
• they detected the hot spots & got a warrant to search the apartment where they found Kyollo growing marijuana
• SCOTUS ruled 5-4 in favor of Kyollo that the use of thermal imaging constituted an illegal search.
• Argued 2/20/01. Decided 6/1/01
• Gov used device not in general public use, to explore home that would've been unknown w/o physical intrusion

GONZALES v. CARHART

• 2003 congress & president passed partial birth abortion ban act
• Carhart believed abortion didn't affect health of woman q
• Argued 11/8/06 Decided 4/18/07
• attorney General Alberto Gonzales v Leroy carhart ( against ban)
• Principles of Roe v Wade

BETTY DUKES V. WALMART

• Greeter for Walmart in California
• Filed class action lawsuit alleging women were paid less in comparable positions
• Argued 3/29/2011. Decided 6/20/2011
• Certified class (female workers in all walmarts employed after 12/26/98) 1.5 mil
• Supreme Court ruled the class action was to large & reversed the lower court

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