Lerma v. Keck

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that a plaintiff that is to suffer threatened or actual injury has standing to make an equal protection argument
• in determining whether legislation furthers legitimate interest, court may consider legislature’s actual purpose or hypothetical basis upon which it could have acted
• in determining whether legislation advances legitimate interest for purposes of equal protection challenge, court may consider not only legislature‟s articulated purpose, but any hypothetical basis for enacting legislation
• in determining whether legislation advances legitimate interest for purposes of equal protection challenge, court may consider not only legislature's articulated purpose, but any hypothetical basis for enacting legislation
• illustrating difference between equal protection and special legislation

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