Thompson & Tomada Enterprises, Inc. v. McKinley County

How courts have described this case

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• stating that party making equal protection challenge bears burden of demonstrating that statute is arbitrary and capricious
• upholding a statute that authorized local elections in McKinley County to determine whether alcoholic beverages should be sold from drive-up windows because special circumstances in McKinley County required special remedial measures
• Equal Protection Clauses of state and federal constitutions prohibit statutes which “create[] classifications that are unreasonable, that do not relate to the statutory purpose, and that are not based on real differences.”
• equal protection prohibits statutory classifications which are unreasonable or unrelated to statutory purpose
• equal protection prohibits statutory classifications which are unreasonable or unrelated to statutory purpose
• “Each law must be evaluated on its own special circumstances.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).