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· 10/15/2013

Smith v. Stephens

Citations

  • 134 S. Ct. 441
  • 187 L. Ed. 2d 285
  • 82 U.S.L.W. 3215
  • 571 U.S. 955
  • 2013 WL 4433735
  • 2013 U.S. LEXIS 7452

How courts have described this case

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  • stating that a challenged legislative act will be upheld under the rational-basis standard \so long as there is any reasonably conceivable state of facts that could provide a rational basis for\ the challenged legislative act (internal quotation marks omitted)
  • stating that a challenged legislative act will be upheld under the rational-basis standard “so long as there is any reasonably conceivable state of facts that could provide a rational basis for” the challenged legislative act (internal quotation marks omitted)
  • “When a challenged law does not infringe upon a fundamental right, we review substantive due process challenges under the rational basis standard.”
  • “When a challenged law does not infringe upon a fundamental right, we review substantive due process challenges under the rational basis standard.”
  • quot- ing PLIVA, Inc. v. Mensing, 564 U.S. 604, 618 n.5 (2011)

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