Saenz v. Roe

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Saenz v. Roe, 526 U.S. 489 (1999), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States discussed whether there is a constitutional right to travel from one state to another.In 1992, the state of California enacted a statute limiting the maximum welfare benefits available to newly arrived residents. At the time, California was paying the sixth-largest welfare benefits in the United States. In a move to reduce the state welfare budget, the California State Legislature enacted a statute (Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code Ann.
11450.03) to limit new residents, for the first year they live in the State, to the benefits they would have received in the State of their prior residence.