| Venue: | SCOTUS |
| Facts: | Idaho statute provides that when you're picking who should administer an estate, preference between equally entitled candidates should go to males. |
| Posture: | Court appoints the father of a deceased child rather than the mother. Appeal. |
| Issue: | Does the dofference in sex of competing applicants bear a rational relationship to a state objective? |
| Holding: | No. |
| Rule: | A classification must be reasonable, not arbitrary, and must rest upon some ground of difference having a fair and substantial relation to the object of the legislation, so that all persons similarly circumstances shall be treated alike. |
| Reasoning: | Well, making decisions easier on the courts might be a legitimate objective, but it's not so legitimate that it justifies the very sorty of arbitrary choice prohibited by the Equal Protection clause. |
| Dicta: | |