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Supreme Court· 6/24/1993

Heller v. Doe Ex Rel. Doe

Citations

  • 509 U.S. 312
  • 113 S. Ct. 2637
  • 125 L. Ed. 2d 257
  • 1993 U.S. LEXIS 4397
  • 61 U.S.L.W. 4728
  • 93 Daily Journal DAR 7987
  • 7 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 513
  • 93 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 4681

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that a classification survives equal protection challenge if there is any reasonably conceivable set of facts that could provide rational basis for it
  • holding that rational-basis review does not authorize courts to substitute their own judgment for the “wisdom, fairness, or logic” of governmental choices
  • recognizing that the Supreme Court has declined to apply heightened scrutiny to the identifiable groups of the mental ly ill or the mentally retarded
  • holding that a classification survives equal protection challenge if there is any reasonably conceivable set of facts that could provide rational basis for it
  • recognizing that parents have information valuable to the court in commitment proceedings for mentally disabled people
  • holding that the burden is on the petitioners to show that a statute is not rationally related by “negat[ing] every conceivable basis which might support it,” whether or not the basis has a foundation in the record

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Judges: Blackmun, Kennedy, O'Connor, Part II, Rehnquist, Scalia, Souter, Stevens, White

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