Sentences with phrase «legitimate state interest»

This is not to say that such values are limitless, or that collective values such as community security or legitimate state interests such as law enforcement are ignored or sacrificed at the altar of individual freedom.

«Bowers held that this was a legitimate state interest.

In an explosive dissent, which Ring includes, Scalia excoriates Kennedy for his contention that enforcement of a majority's moral beliefs does not advance any legitimate state interest.

By singling out visitors to DSS, they argue, the policy violates a legal tenet which holds that the government can not treat classes of citizens differently without showing some legitimate state interest.

Dismissing ineffective tenured teachers, the court held, was a legitimate state interest that could overcome tenured teachers» contractual rights; however, the state had not proven that the existing employment policies were inadequate for carrying out such dismissals.

As long as Connecticut lawmakers had a legitimate state interest that was reasonable related to the labeling of products produced from the process of genetic engineering, the GMO labeling bill would be considered constitutional by any court of law.

While states may not pass regulations affecting aliens that directly conflict with federal laws or the U.S. Constitution, states may pass other regulations if they bear some rational relationship to a legitimate state interest.

reflecting a legitimate state interest, might properly be imposed upon those who chose to attend.

The Court held that a city ordinance violated the Equal Protection clause, as there was not a rational relation between the ordinance and legitimate state interests.

The Supreme Court found that the applicable standard of review was that the legislation was rationally related to a legitimate state interest.