The phrase "asserted interest" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a claim or declaration of interest in a particular subject, project, or investment.
Example: "The company expressed its asserted interest in acquiring the startup during the meeting."
Alternatives: "declared interest" or "claimed interest".
"The commonwealth's asserted interest in protecting public confidence in elections is a relevant and legitimate state interest sufficiently weighty to justify the burden".
One senior Republican said that Mr. Forstmann's wealth, and his asserted interest in paying for his own campaign, was one of his great potential assets.
If the Religion Clauses demand neutrality, we must enforce them, in hard cases as well as easy ones.... What is the nature of the state's asserted interest here?..
Applying strict scrutiny, the district court determined that the law school's asserted interest in assembling a diverse student body was not compelling because "the attainment of a racially diverse class... was not recognized as such by Bakke and is not a remedy for past discrimination".
"The city's regulation of highway billboards has more holes than Swiss cheese, demonstrating plainly that its asserted interest is nothing but a pretext for the city's true purpose for its regulation: to eliminate competition and make money for itself," lawyers for some of the companies wrote.
In her 36-page opinion, district judge Tanya Walton Pratt in Indianapolis said the state had a compelling concern to protect its residents, but that withholding federal grant money from the aid group "in no way furthers the state's asserted interest in the safety of Indiana residents".
The Massachusetts buffer zone law goes too far, the court said, burdening "substantially more speech than necessary to achieve the Commonwealth's asserted interests".
In legal terms, as Judge Nottingham put it, "a content-based distinction cannot be made on constitutional grounds unrelated to the asserted government interest".
And Justice O'Connor wrote: "Unlike the moral disapproval of same-sex relations -- the asserted state interest in this case -- other reasons exist to promote the institution of marriage beyond mere moral disapproval of an excluded group".
Indeed, we have never held that moral disapproval, without any other asserted state interest, is a sufficient rationale under the Equal Protection Clause to justify a law that discriminates among groups of persons.....
Is the asserted government interest substantial?
