Weinberger, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare v. Wiesenfeld [Case 73-1892], January 20, 1975聽
Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld was one of several landmark gender-based discrimination cases successfully argued by Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the Supreme Court during the 1970s. Arguing for the Appellee, Stephen Wiesenfeld, Ginsburg held that the gender-based distinction in Section 402(g) of the Social Security Act was unconstitutional on the grounds that it violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment. The Court unanimously voted in Wiesenfeld鈥檚 favor. Ginsburg was later nominated to the Supreme Court in 1993, by President Bill Clinton, where she served until her death in 2020.
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