Snowden v. Hughes

Supreme Court of the United States

Argued December 13, 1943
Decided January 17, 1944

Full case name

Joseph Snowden v. Edward J. Hughes and Louie E. Louis

Citations

321 U.S. 1 (more)

Prior history

132 F.2d 476 (7th Cir.), cert. granted, 319 U.S. 738.

Holding

The Fourteenth Amendment does not protect rights pertinent solely to state citizenship, and the equal protection clause does not protect citizens from unfair applications of fair state laws where purposeful discrimination is absent.

Court membership

Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone

Associate Justices Owen J. Roberts · Hugo Black Stanley F. Reed · Felix Frankfurter William O. Douglas · Frank Murphy Robert H. Jackson · Wiley B. Rutledge

Case opinions

Majority

Stone, joined by Rutledge, Frankfurter

Dissent

Douglas, joined by Murphy

Laws applied

United States Constitution, Amendment XIV

Snowden v. Hughes, 321 U.S. 1 (1944), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution does not protect rights pertinent solely to state citizenship, and that the equal protection clause does not protect citizens from unfair applications of fair state laws where purposeful discrimination is absent.

References

Snowden v. Hughes, 321 U.S. 1 (Supreme Court of the United States 1944).

External links

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