For how can there be a rational basis for a ban that has been proven ineffective?
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Strong clinical data clearly drives this kind of bullishness, but greed often pushes optimism beyond rational basis.
Pension consultants simply have no rational basis for claiming to be uniquely qualified to perform manager due diligence reviews.
There is no rational basis to deny gay and lesbian couples these rights.
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The morality of the Slows had an undeniably rational basis, under those conditions.
There, the justices decided that the state had no rational basis for denying same sex couples the right to marry.
Nor are they able to assess brands on a purely rational basis.
Judge Vinson gave this claim the back of his hand under the rational basis test, which is highly favorable to the state.
The city argued, and the majority on the Court agreed, that this differential treatment still passed muster under the rational basis standard.
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There is no rational basis for the distinction between the semi-automatic hunting rifles that the ban prohibits and those it does not.
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Nor are they able to assess brand on a purely rational basis.
First, I should have done diligence on what my peers were getting so I had some rational basis for my internal salary position.
Airlines discriminate against tall people, presumably with the acquiesence or active support of the FAA. They have a rational basis for doing so.
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Cosmetics that make no difference in the operation of the gun or its effectiveness, but that scare dilettante suburbanites, provide no such rational basis.
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Justices William Rehnquist, Byron White and Anthony Kennedy said they would allow restrictions on abortion, but only if the restrictions had a rational basis.
Whether or not it has a solid rational basis, lots of people are suspicious of genetically modified (GM) foods and the businesses that produce them.
Clearly, there was no rational basis for Senator Cruz to conclude that such a remark was an expression of public praise for the nomination of Chuck Hagel.
They are, with their rational basis in math and science and their clean modernist aesthetic, the perfect antidote to the postmodern, self-referential and celebrity art of the early aughts.
But the court upheld a requirement for commercial interior design, holding that the state had a rational basis for protecting the public from inept design, which could create safety hazards.
U.S. The Obama administration argues for "heightened scrutiny, " which the Supreme Court has never used and which is, like intermediate scrutiny, stricter than rational basis and more relaxed than strict scrutiny.
Thus, we will apply the rational basis test.
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Instead of deciding whether any of the above are reasonable, the court concluded that Prop. 8 could have no effect on any of them so it had no rational basis for being the law of the land.
He thus notes that the government has a rational basis to expel from its food stamp program any employer whose workers swapped food stamps for cash behind his back even though the employer was innocent of any wrongdoing.
The administration argues that since civil unions and marriages are materially identical, those states--unlike those without civil unions, or with ones that are lesser than marriage--have surrendered the option of claiming a rational basis in protecting the public fisc.
Writing for a 6-3 majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy held that a Colorado constitutional amendment forbidding local gay rights legislation lacked a rational basis because it singled out gays, but he expressly declined to establish gays as a class that needs special antidiscrimination treatment.
Romer was an equal-protection case while Lawrence was a privacy case, but in both of them the court applied the lowest level of scrutiny: It struck down the laws in question on the ground that disapproval of homosexuality was not even a "rational basis" for the laws under challenge.
"In the face of new and compelling data that there should be no elective deliveries before 39 weeks, there is very little rational basis to act differently, " says Jonathan Perlin, president of clinical and physician services and chief medical officer at HCA. He says 96% of deliveries now meet the 39-week rule.
Which leads to the question: How would one resolve Hollingsworth using a rational-basis test?
But it seems to us that it misunderstands the nature of the rational-basis test and runs counter to the logic of Romer and Lawrence.
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