The only difference was that there was no protected class.

Nor do we in the protected middle class seem to care, at least care enough.

The order was later amended to cover additional protected classes.

Each case within the protected class must, in the end, depend on its own facts.

But when it comes to discrimination and the law, the rights of someone in a protected class must be at stake to make a case.

First, how is the protected class to be identified?

(i) The plaintiff is a member of a protected class.

It is establishing a new protected class from which rights would flow.

Criminals are not a protected class under the discrimination statutes, they say.