 On October 18, 2012, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals became the first federal appeals court, in "Windsor v. United States", to hold that laws that classify people based on sexual orientation should be subject to intermediate scrutiny.The decision of the Second Circuit was later affirmed by the Supreme Court on June 26, 2013, but the United States Supreme Court did not specifically state the level of scrutiny it applied.On January 21, 2014, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in "SmithKline Beecham Corp. v. Abbott Laboratories" that "classifications based on sexual orientation are subject to heightened scrutiny", making it the second appellate court to do so.