Weinberger, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare v. Wiesenfeld [Case 73-1892], January 20, 1975 

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’s favor. Ginsburg was later nominated to the Supreme Court in 1993, by President Bill Clinton, where she served until her death in 2020.

Listen and download the Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld oral argument and the March 19, 1975, Supreme Court opinion [Case 73-1892], which is part of Record Group 267, Series: Sound Recordings of Oral Arguments from the Red Series, December 1972–June 27, 2005. 

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