In the case of Orr v. Orr (440 U.S. 268 (1979)), the US Supreme Court struck down an Alabama Statute that said that only husbands could be required to pay alimony. The Court found that the Statute was a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment because it amounted to gender discrimination. In general, the Court uses an intermediate scrutiny review in cases of gender discrimination, and found that, in this case, there was no exceedingly persuasive justification for the Statute. On the contrary, the Court found that the Statute was based on stereotypical assumptions about gender roles.