[Jim Noble]

Sorry for giving you the wrong cite, here's the right one:

"This Court has held that once a State posits a judicially enforceable right of children to support from their natural fathers, the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the State from denying that same right to illegitimate children. Gomez v. Perez, 409 U.S. 535 (1973)."

[inquest]

Ah, yes, the equal-protection clause: the Holy Grail of judicial activism.