Linda R. S. v. Richard D., 410 U.S. 614 (1973), was a United States Supreme Court case resulting in a ruling that a particular section of a Texas Penal Code did not apply to mothers with out-of-wedlock children.

Linda R. S., the mother of an out of wedlock child, brought an action to enjoin the "discriminatory application" of Art.

Citing Flast v. Cohen, the Court held that "in the unique context of a challenge to a criminal statute, appellant has failed to allege a sufficient nexus between her injury and the government action which she attacks to justify judicial intervention.

"[1][4] In December 1981, in Leeke v. Timmerman, the Supreme Court affirmed the precedent in Linda R. S. v. Richard D..[5] Four judges wrote two separate dissenting notes.

602, they are rendered nonpersons; a father may ignore them with full knowledge that he will be subjected to no penal sanctions.