In re DeLancy’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “The Equal Protection Clause of Article I, Section 19 of the North Carolina Constitution and the Equal Protection Clause of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution forbid North Carolina from denying any person the equal protection of the laws, and require that all persons similarly situated be treated alike. The Equal Protection Clauses function to restrain our state from engaging in activities that either create classifications of persons or interfere with a legally recognized right. Upon the challenge of a [governmental action] as violating equal protection, our courts must first determine which of several tiers of scrutiny should be utilized and then whether the [action] meets the relevant standard of review. Where the upper tier of equal protection analysis requiring strict scrutiny of a governmental classification applies only when the classification impermissibly interferes with the exercise of a fundamental right or operates to the peculiar disadvantage of a suspect class, we apply the lower tier or rational basis test if the [action] neither classifies persons based on suspect characteristics nor impinges on the exercise of a fundamental right.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Krueger v. North Carolina Criminal Justice Education & Training Standards Commission