The equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment does not take from the State the power to classify in the adoption of police laws, but admits of the exercise of a wide scope of discretion in that regard, and avoids what is done only when it is... Supreme Court Reporter - Sida 340efter United States. Supreme Court - 1911Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| 1913 - 1140 sidor
...States Constitution does not prevent a state from classifying in adopting police laws, but permits the exercise of a wide scope of discretion in that regard, and avoids such classification only when without reasonable basis, and therefore purely arbitrary. [Ed. Note.—... | |
| James Harrington Boyd - 1913 - 820 sidor
...amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the equal protection of the laws, takes from the State the power to classify in the adoption of police regulations. The limitations imposed admit of a wide discretion in this respect, and avoid only what... | |
| Texas. Legislature. House, Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives - 1914 - 580 sidor
...31 Sup. Ct., 337, 55 L. Ed., 369; '(1) The equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment does not take from the State the power to classify in the...purely arbitrary. (2) A classification having some leasonable basis does not offend against that clause, merely because it is not made with mathematical... | |
| 1916 - 1042 sidor
...decisions of this court, are these: (1) The equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment does not take from the state the power to classify in the...the exercise of a wide scope of discretion in that rognrd. and avoids what is done only when it is without nny reasonable basis and therefore is purely... | |
| Joseph Wheless - 1917 - 1112 sidor
...federal constitution, and does not take from the State the power of classification in the enactment of police laws, but admits of the exercise of a wide...it is without any reasonable basis, and, therefore, purely arbitrary; for a classification having some reasonable basis does not offend against that provision... | |
| Hannis Taylor - 1917 - 1038 sidor
...wide discretion in classifying according to general, rather than minute, distinctions, and condemns what is done only when it is without any reasonable basis, and therefore is purely arbitrary. Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co., 220 US 61. Tested by these standards, this classification is... | |
| Donald J. Kiser - 1917 - 166 sidor
...amendment to the constitution of the United States relating to the equal protection of the laws, takes from the state the power to classify in the adoption of police regulations. The limitations Imposed admit of a wide discretion in this respect, and avoid only what... | |
| Michigan. Attorney General's Office, Michigan. Department of Attorney General - 1918 - 282 sidor
...relative to class legislation is as follows: "The equal-protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment does not take from the State the power to classify in the...reasonable basis, and. therefore, is purely arbitrary. CJl A classification having some reasonable basis does not offend against that clause merely because... | |
| William Otis Badger - 1918 - 1030 sidor
...Amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the equal protection of the laws takes from the state the power to classify in the adoption of police regulations. The limitations imposed admit of a wide discretion in this respect, and avoid only what... | |
| 1921 - 958 sidor
...Va. at page 850, 76 SE 897, it is held: "The equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment does not take from the state the power to classify in the...regard, and avoids what is done only when it is without reasonable basis, and therefore is purely arbitrary." The statute Is (1) not supposed to have been... | |
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