 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1976 - 1102 sidor
...the most relaxed regime of judicial inquiry. See, eg, Dandridge v. Williams, 397 US 471, 485 (1970) ("If the classification has some 'reasonable basis,' it does not offend the Constitution"). Contrariwise, the element of necessity traditionally has played a key role in the most penetrating... | |
 | United States. Department of Agriculture - 1993 - 640 sidor
..."substantially stronger." Frame rejected a similar claim. 885 F.2d at 1137-38. The Supreme Court has held: "In the area of economics and social welfare, a State does not violate the Equal Protection Clause [and correspondingly the Federal Government does not violate the equal protection component of the... | |
 | United States. Tax Court - 1986 - 1420 sidor
...376, 385 (1960); accord, San Antonio School Dist. v. Rodriguez, 411 US 1, 51 (1973). The provision "does not offend the Constitution simply because the...classification 'is not made with mathematical nicety * * *' " Dandridge v. Williams, 397 US 471, 485 (1970), quoting Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co.,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1973 - 1054 sidor
...important goal. This Court emphasized only recently, in Dandridge v. Williams, 397 US 471, 485 (1970), that in "the area of economics and social welfare, a State...the classifications made by its laws are imperfect." A legislature may address a problem "one step at a time," or even "select one phase of one field and... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging - 1976 - 60 sidor
...perhaps has not chosen the best means to accomplish this purpose. But where rationality is the test, a State does not violate the Equal Protection Clause...the classifications made by its laws are imperfect. Dandri&ge v. Williams, 397 US, at 485. The dissenting opinion filed in the case questions the perpetuation... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging - 1976 - 68 sidor
...perhaps has not chosen the best means to accomplish this purpose. But where rationality is the test, a State does not violate the Equal Protection Clause...the classifications made by its laws are imperfect. Dandridge v. Williams, 397 US, at 485. The dissenting opinion filed in the case questions the perpetuation... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging - 1977 - 244 sidor
...perhaps has not chosen the best means to accomplish this purpose. But where rationality is the test, a State "does not violate the Equal Protection Clause...the classifications made by its laws are imperfect." 96 S. Ct. at 2568. Even In rejecting the constitutional claim of the police officer, however, the Court... | |
 | National Institute of Education (U.S.) - 1980 - 284 sidor
...public goods, such as education. As the Supreme Court observed, in a case involving welfare benefits:72 "In the area of economics and social welfare, a State...the classifications made by its laws are imperfect. The problems of government are practical ones and may justify, if they do not require, rough accommodations—illogical... | |
 | United States. Social Security Administration - 652 sidor
...racial or ethnic prejudice. Citing Dandridge v. Williams. 397 US 471 (1970), the Court reaffirmed that a state does not violate the equal protection clause...the classifications made by its laws are imperfect. It held: "So long as its judgments are rational, and not invidious, the legislature's efforts to tackle... | |
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In the area of economics and social welfare, a State does not violate the Equal Protection Clause merely because the classifications made by its laws are imperfect. 
