Sex-Based Classifications Cases

Andersen v. King County - Considered the constitutionality of a state ban on same-sex marriage. July 2006

B.H. et al. v. Easton Area School District - Determines whether a school's policy that prohibits students from wearing certain breast cancer awareness bracelets is based on stereotypes concerning the men and women's roles. September 2011

Baker v. Vermont - Determined whether denying same-sex couples the right to marry violated Vermont's marriage statutes and/or Vermont's Common Benefits Clause. December 1999

Bowers v. Hardwick - Determined the constitutionality of state anti-sodomy laws. June 1986

Boy Scouts of America v. Dale - Determined whether the Boy Scouts of America have a constitutional right to revoke the membership of a scout leader for being gay despite state law prohibiting such discrimination in places of public accommodation. June 2000

Conaway v. Deane - Decided the constitutionality of a ban on same-sex marriage in Maryland. September 2007

Cote-Whitacre, et al. v. Dep't of Public Health - Determined whether it is a violation of equal protection to apply a hundred-year-old Massachusetts law that denies marriage to persons who could not legally marry in their home state to same sex couples seeking to marry in Massachusetts. August 2004