So what should be considered reasonable costs?
It is not clear what would be considered reasonable steps.
I'm sure in America it would be considered reasonable, if not too small," Zoerner said.
But a flat ban on a type of weapon cannot be considered reasonable, the court said.
The price that people pay above what might be considered reasonable, relative to income, differs vastly.
"But if the two weeks include Christmas and New Year's, that's probably not going to be considered reasonable," Mr. Abramson said.
So a six-week time period from the date an owner finds a tenant to the date the board responds would probably be considered reasonable.
That means judges departing downward will be constrained by how much of a variance they can impose for the sentence to be considered reasonable by an appellate court.
Asked to assess whether their claims met the letter of the law, he has come up with his own standards of what could be considered reasonable.
"Without this provision, New York courts will allow either a buyer or seller a reasonable amount of time to close," Mr. Aldad said, adding that a 30-day extension would be considered reasonable.
In its petition, the center asked the Food and Drug Administration to establish a "daily value" for added sugars, an amount that would be considered reasonable for a healthy person, and to indicate on food labels how much added sugar a serving of the food contains and what percentage of the daily value that represents.
