O'Brien v. Dunlap

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that this Court has no authority to render an advisory opinion
• recognizing that this Court has no authority to render an advisory opinion
• requiring the party defending the statute to \demonstrate a substantial justification \
• “The vice in special laws is that they do not embrace all of the class to which they are naturally related.”
• “whether a law is special or general can most easily be determined by looking to whether the categories created under the law are open-ended or fixed, based on some immutable characteristic”
• “The burden, therefore, shifts to . . . the party defending the statute[] to show that it is constitutional. To meet this standard, the mere existence of a rational or reasonable basis for the classification is insufficient.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).