Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Feldman v. Weymouth Township

Feldman v. Weymouth Twp., 430 U.S. 977 (1977)

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1977-04-25
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • concluding that “New Jersey has always required a real and substantial relationship between the classification and the governmental purpose which it purportedly serves”
  • zoning ordinance limiting mobile home units to trailer parks and their use to families in which head of household is at least fifty-two years old is within zoning power as promoting general welfare
  • under equal protection analysis, classification must be sustained if justifiable “on any reasonably conceivable state of facts”
  • under equal protection analysis, classification must be sustained if justifiable “on any reasonably conceivable state of facts” and “[i]t does not matter that the classification may be mathematically imperfect or that it results in some inequities in practice”

Citator

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Appeal from Sup. Ct. N. J. dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Treating the papers whereon the appeal was taken as a petition for writ of certiorari, certiorari denied.