Goesaert v. Cleary
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| Goesaert v. Cleary | ||||||||||||
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| Argued November 19, 1948 Decided December 20, 1948 |
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| A state law prohibiting a woman from working as a bartender unless she was the wife or daughter of the bar owner did not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. | ||||||||||||
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| Chief Justice: Fred M. Vinson Associate Justices: Hugo Black, Stanley Forman Reed, Felix Frankfurter, William O. Douglas, Frank Murphy, Robert H. Jackson, Wiley Blount Rutledge, Harold Hitz Burton |
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| Majority by: Frankfurter Joined by: Vinson, Black, Reed, Jackson, Burton Dissent by: Rutledge Joined by: Douglas, Murphy |
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| Laws applied | ||||||||||||
| U.S. Const. amend. XIV, Mich. Stat. Ann. ยง 18990(1). | ||||||||||||
Goesaert v. Cleary, 335 U.S. 464 (1948), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld a Michigan law which prohibited women from being employed as bartenders unless their father or husband owned the establishment.
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