Stanton v. Stanton

Stanton v. Stanton
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 19, 1975 Decided April 15, 1975
Full case name	Stanton v. Stanton
Citations	421 U.S. 7 (more) 95 S. Ct. 1373; 43 L. Ed. 2d 688
Case history
Prior	Appeal from the Supreme Court of Utah
Holding
Utah's definition of adulthood was a violation of equal protection. Utah Supreme Court reversed and remanded.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William O. Douglas · William J. Brennan Jr. Potter Stewart · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Rehnquist
Case opinions
Majority	Blackmun, joined by Burger, Douglas, Brennan, Stewart, White, Marshall, Powell
Dissent	Rehnquist
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. XIV

Stanton v. Stanton, 421 U.S. 7 (1975), is a United States Supreme Court case which struck down Utah's definitions of adulthood as a violation of equal protection: females reached adulthood at 18; males at 21.^{[1]: 217–218}