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National Gay Task Force v. Board of Education
United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit case / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
National Gay Task Force v. Board of Education of the City of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 729 F.2d 1270 (10th Cir. 1984), is a decision by the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit that upheld in part, and struck down in part, a law allowing schools to fire teachers for public homosexual conduct. It was the first federal appellate court decision to deny that sexual orientation is a suspect classification. It was affirmed by an equally divided vote in the United States Supreme Court.
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National Gay Task Force v. Board of Education of the City of Oklahoma City | |
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![]() Court of Appeals Docket: 82-1912 | |
Court | United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit |
Full case name | National Gay Task Force, Plaintiff-Appellant v. Board of Education of Oklahoma City, Defendant-Appellee. |
Decided | March 14, 1984. |
Citation | 729 F.2d 1270 (10th Cir. 1984) |
Case history | |
Subsequent actions | affirmed by an equally divided U.S. Supreme Court, 470 U.S. 903 (1985) |
Court membership | |
Judges sitting | Judges James E. Barrett, Monroe G. McKay, James Kenneth Logan |
Case opinions | |
Majority | Logan, joined by McKay |
Dissent | Barrett |
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