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{{Officeholder
|name=Stanley Matthews
|image=
|party=
|spouse=Mary A. Matthews
|religion=
|offices=
{{Officeholder/Supreme Court Justice
|role=Associate
|nominator=[[James Garfield]]
|terms= May 12, 1881 – March 22, 1889
|preceded=[[Noah H. Swayne]]
|former=y
|succeeded=[[David J. Brewer]]
}}
|military=y
|allegiance=Union
|rank=Lieutenant-colonel
|battles=[[Civil War]]
}}
'''Thomas Stanley Matthews''' (July 21, 1824 – March 22, 1889) was an [[Associate Justice]] of the [[Supreme Court of the United States]]. He wrote the majority opinion in ''Yick Wo v. Hopkins'' - which established that [[de facto]] discriminatory application of a neutral law violates the [[Equal Protection Clause]] of the [[14th Amendment]].<ref name="jrank">{{cite web|url=http://law.jrank.org/pages/8484/Matthews-Stanley.html|title=Stanley Matthews|format=HTML|language=English|work=law.jrank}}</ref>
==References==
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