CASE The near-beer case: Craig v. Boren (1976). WHAT WAS AT STAKE Oklahoma frat boys protested the constitutionality of the fact that in their state, women were allowed to buy low-alcohol beer at age eighteen when men had to wait until they were twenty-one. RBG’S ROLE RBG thought the “thirsty boys” case was “something of an embarrassment,” but gamely took it to the Supreme Court. RESULT The beer guzzlers’ case turned out to be a legal landmark. The court finally applied “intermediate scrutiny” to laws that discriminated on the basis of sex.
