The Supreme Court called the Idaho law "the very kind of arbitrary legislative choice forbidden by the Equal Protection Clause".
In an opinion for a unanimous Court in Reed v. Reed, Chief Justice Burger overturned the Idaho law as "the very kind of arbitrary legislative choice forbidden by the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment".
3. What matters in long run is better, more affordable health care for Americans, NOT House leaders' arbitrary legislative calendar.
Williams argues that as an "express guarantee of personal freedom", the provision should be interpreted broadly and promote "individual liberty over the arbitrary exercise of legislative and executive power".
The report criticized the present legislative and regulatory framework as "arbitrary, non-transparent and prone to manipulations," and recommended a competitive bidding process for the allocation and pricing of natural resources, Tehelka wrote.
Despite new calls from the White House on Wednesday to enact a combination of tax increases and cuts to postpone the so-called sequester, the House is moving forward on a legislative agenda that assumes deep and arbitrary cuts to defense and domestic programs — once considered unthinkable — will remain in place through the end of the year.
Consequently, a law that differentiates between classes of persons is valid and constitutional provided that there is some difference in circumstances, and the factor which the legislature adopts as constituting the dissimilarity in circumstances is not purely arbitrary but bears a reasonable relation to the legislative object of the law.
Human rights are not conditional -- they do not succumb to racist legislative initiatives, nor are they subservient to arbitrary government decisions that would wave human rights about as a carrot or a stick.
Senate Bill 439 establishes a list of impeachable offenses for Kansas justices and other elected officials, including "attempting to subvert fundamental laws and introduce arbitrary power" and "attempting to usurp the power of the legislative or executive branch of government".".
The government's practice of selective registration and arbitrary arrests of Tamil men and women elsewhere in Sri Lanka for reasons of security without legislative safeguards is a serious form of discrimination.
Exelon's press release quotes the company's CEO, John Rowe:"Inaction on climate is not an option," said Rowe. "If Congress does not act, the EPA will, and the result will be more arbitrary, more expensive, and more uncertain for investors and the industry than a reasonable, market-based legislative solution".
