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'''Gabree v. King''', 614 F.2d 1, (1st Cir. 1980), the Court of Appeals for the [[First Circuit]] affirmed the district court's decision to reject nineteen year old Allen T. Gabree's challenge to a law (Mass.Gen.Laws c. 138, 34A) which inflicted criminal penalties for the purchase or consumption of alcohol by persons under the age of twenty.
Allen T. Gabree, a nineteen year old citizen of Massachusetts, challenged this law, on the basis of "equal protection" provided in the [[Fourteenth Amendment]].
The Court held that "In order to warrant searching "equal protection" scrutiny of the age classification drawn here, appellant must establish that it "burdens a suspect group or a fundamental interest."
The [[United States Supreme Court]] defined a suspect group as one, "saddled with such disabilities, or subjected to such a history of purposeful unequal treatment, or relegated to such a position of political powerlessness as to command extraordinary protection from the majoritarian political process."<ref>San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez</ref>
Resolving that nineteen year olds did not meet the definition of a suspect group, the Court concluded that: "Massachusetts' raised "drinking age" does not offend principles of equal protection."
==References==
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Allen T. Gabree, a nineteen year old citizen of Massachusetts, challenged this law, on the basis of "equal protection" provided in the [[Fourteenth Amendment]].
The Court held that "In order to warrant searching "equal protection" scrutiny of the age classification drawn here, appellant must establish that it "burdens a suspect group or a fundamental interest."
The [[United States Supreme Court]] defined a suspect group as one, "saddled with such disabilities, or subjected to such a history of purposeful unequal treatment, or relegated to such a position of political powerlessness as to command extraordinary protection from the majoritarian political process."<ref>San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez</ref>
Resolving that nineteen year olds did not meet the definition of a suspect group, the Court concluded that: "Massachusetts' raised "drinking age" does not offend principles of equal protection."
==References==
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