Parham v. Hughes

Parham v. Hughes
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 15, 1979 Decided April 24, 1979
Full case name	Curtis Parham v. Ellis Franklin Hughes
Citations	441 U.S. 347 (more) 99 S.Ct. 1742
Argument	Oral argument
Case history
Prior	243 S.E.2d 867 (Ga. 1978).
Holding
The Georgia statute does not violate the equal protection clause because it is substantially related to the objective of avoiding difficulties in proving paternity after the death of an illegitimate child.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Potter Stewart Byron White · Thurgood Marshall Harry Blackmun · Lewis F. Powell Jr. William Rehnquist · John P. Stevens
Case opinions
Majority	Stewart, joined by Burger, Powell, Rehnquist, Stevens
Concurrence	Powell
Dissent	White, joined by Brennan, Marshall, Blackmun
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. XIV

Parham v. Hughes, 441 U.S. 347 (1979), was a case the Supreme Court of the United States heard and decided in 1979.^[1] The decision upheld a Georgia law that barred fathers of illegitimate children from bringing wrongful death claims without imposing the same burden on mothers.^[2]