That a large number of these forms were non-verbal and very subtle – requiring replay after replay revealing further layers of meaning, further legitimated both the importance of video itself and, specifically, the visual fields of the infants.
Habitus is reflected in a series of practical activities in such areas as consumption, which gradually forms symbolic boundaries between individuals occupying different positions in the class structure and further legitimates the class structure.
A further legitimating aspect is the organisational background of a standard, in particular the expertise and the backing of reputable entities incorporated in the standard.
The business judgment rule, as defined by the courts, requires that boards act in good faith and exercise honest judgment when furthering legitimate corporate purposes.
Accordingly, the joint opinion held that so long as state regulation of abortion furthers legitimate interests, that is, interests not designed to strike at the right itself, the regulation is invalid only if it imposes an undue burden on a woman's ability to obtain an abortion, meaning that it places a substantial obstacle in the woman's path...
If those granting options are aware of significant, non-public company information, they must be satisfied that the grant actually furthers legitimate corporate interests and isn't merely a windfall.
As Frederick Geddickes, Timothy Sandefur, Ryan Williams, and David Bernstein, among others, have shown, judges were scrutinizing legislation that implicated natural and common law rights to determine whether that legislation furthered legitimate, public-spirited ends before the drafting of the original Constitution.
In seeking to defend the challenged provisions, the government admitted that the provisions "may not be sensible or particularly well crafted" but argued that those who drafted them "could have believed that they furthered legitimate interests in public health and safety," even if they actually did not.
