| Goesaert v. Cleary | ||||||
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Supreme Court of the United States |
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| Argued November 19, 1948 Decided December 20, 1948 |
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| Full case name | Valentine Goesaert et al. v. Owen J. Cleary et al. | |||||
| Citations | 335 U.S. 464 (more) 69 S.Ct. 198, 93 L.Ed. 163 |
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| Prior history | 74 F. Supp. 735 (E.D. Mich. 1947), probable jurisdiction noted, 68 S. Ct. 1340 (1948). | |||||
| Holding | ||||||
| A state law prohibiting a woman from being licensed 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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| Case opinions | ||||||
| Majority | Frankfurter, joined by Vinson, Black, Reed, Jackson, Burton | |||||
| Dissent | Rutledge, joined by Douglas, Murphy | |||||
| Laws applied | ||||||
| U.S. Const. amend. XIV, Mich. Stat. Ann. § 18990(1). | ||||||
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Overruled by
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| Craig v. Boren (1976) | ||||||
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 licensed as a bartender in all cities having a population of 50,000 or more, unless their father or husband owned the establishment. Craig v. Boren, 429 U.S. 190 (1976) subsequently overruled Goesaert.