平等保护条款

大法官安东尼·肯尼迪宣布DOMA违反第5修正案的平等保护条款。

Justice Anthony Kennedy declared DOMA in violation of the Fifth Amendment 's Equal Protection clause .

根据第四修正案的平等保护条款，否认医疗救助的覆盖范围包括堕胎和处方避孕药品的裁决也受到了挑战。

Rulings denying Medicaid coverage for abortions and prescription contraceptive coverage have both been challenged based on the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment .

间接歧视理论在美国是以差别影响分析的形式出现的，最高法院拒绝把差别影响分析引入对平等保护条款的理解中去，间接歧视理论只是在普通法律案件中得到了有限的适用。

In the United States , the theory of indirect discrimination , referred to as " disparate impact analysis ", was denied by the Supreme Court in the constitutional cases and has limited use only in legal cases .

联邦最高法院多数意见认为，佛罗里达州最高法院的判决存在着违反宪法平等法律保护条款问题。

Opinion of the majority of the Federal Supreme Judicial Court was that the judgment of the Florida Supreme Court violated relevant provisions including the equal legal protection in the Constitution .