The Supreme Court's 1971 ruling in Reed v.Reed reflected what with regard to level of scrutiny?

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Reed v. Reed was significant because it marked the first time the Supreme Court applied the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to strike down a law based on gender discrimination. However, the Court did not apply the strict scrutiny standard used for racial discrimination cases. Instead, it used a less stringent standard, which later evolved into what is known today as intermediate scrutiny for gender discrimination cases. This decision laid the groundwork for the development of this intermediate level of scrutiny for gender discrimination, but at the time of Reed v. Reed, the Court's approach was indeed more relaxed compared to its approach to racial classification.

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