MR. JUSTICE BLACKMUN delivered the opinion of the Court.
This case presents the issue whether a state statute specifying for males a greater age of majority than it specifies for females denies, in the context of a parent's obligation for support payments for his children, the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by § 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Appellant Thelma B. Stanton and appellee James Lawrence Stanton, Jr., were married at Elko...
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