# United States v. Jeffrey I. Cohen

> Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · May 4, 1984 · 733 F.2d 128

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9472108

## Case

- **Full name:** UNITED STATES of America v. Jeffrey I. COHEN, Appellant
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
- **Decided:** May 4, 1984
- **Citations:** 733 F.2d 128; 236 U.S. App. D.C. 36; 1984 U.S. App. LEXIS 22838
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Edwards
- **Judges:** Robinson, Wright, Tamm, Wilkey, Wald, Mikva, Edwards, Ginsburg, Bork, Scalia, MacKinnon
- **Cited by:** 41 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding no equal protection violation and that neither strict scrutiny nor intermediate scrutiny was applicable
- rejecting argument that “distinctive legislative treatment of the District is ‘particularly suspect’ and thus requires more than a rational basis to support it”

## Opinion text

HARRY T. EDWARDS, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I concur only in'the result reached by the court. On the facts of this case, I agree that the challenged procedures enacted by Congress for “commitment” of federal criminal defendants in the District of Columbia do not violate the equal protection component of the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment.

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