Araiza, William D.2019-09-252019-09-252010-10-2620070046-1121http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/175722"Village of Willowbrook v. Olech,1 decided by the Supreme Court in 2000, is a small case that potentially says much about basic issues in the law of the Equal Protection Clause. 2 In a remarkably short per curiam opinion,3 the Court in Olech decided that a landowner engaged in a spat with a municipality could bring an equal protection claim without asserting either the deprivation of a fundamental right or discrimination based on membership in a large class, such as one defined by race. Olech held that a person could bring an equal protection claim simply by asserting that she herself, as a “class of one,” was intentionally treated differently from relevantly similar individuals and that that treatment was irrational. Importantly, the Court explicitly did not require the plaintiff to allege animus or ill will on the part of the government defendant. All it required was intentionally different treatment lacking a rational basis." (p. 1)engWith permission of the license/copyright holderclimate ethicslawPolitical ethicsEthics of lawRights based legal ethicsEnvironmental ethicsResources ethicsArticle