Abstract
APPELLANTS brought an action in the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma seeking declaratory and injunctive relief.' The complaint charged that the operation of two Oklahoma statutes,' which prohibited the sale of 3.2% beer to males under the age of 21 while allowing females over the age of 18 to purchase the commodity, violated the fourteenth amendment to the Federal Constitution. The three-judge court held that the gender-based classification did not violate the equal protection clause.' In Craig v. Boren,' on direct appeal, the United States Supreme Court reversed, finding that the gender-based classification could not withstand the requirements of the equal protection clause.'
Recommended Citation
Sadowski, Anthony
(1977)
"Standing; Assertion of Jus Tertii; Sex Discrimination; Equal Protection; Twenty-first Amendment; Craig v. Boren,"
Akron Law Review: Vol. 10:
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