Citations 321 U.S. 1 (more) | End date 1944 | |
Full case name Joseph Snowden v. Edward J. Hughes and Louie E. Louis Prior history 132 F.2d 476 (7th Cir.), cert. granted, 319 U.S. 738. Majority Stone, joined by Rutledge, Frankfurter Dissent Douglas, joined by Murphy | ||
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.
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