Sentence examples for has a rational basis from inspiring English sources

That's the hope, at least, and it has a rational basis.

"As long as the city's distinction has a rational basis, that distinction does not violate the Equal Protection Clause," Justice Breyer said.

"One of the open secrets in this industry is that when people are engaged in behaviour that seems irrational, often it has a rational basis".

Given that the Lawrence case established gay sex as a protected right, Mr. Olson argues, the state must demonstrate that it has a rational basis for discriminating against a class of citizens simply for engaging in that behavior.

"But my gut reaction is that a court would allow the board to use its discretion to make a distinction between residential and professional shareholders as long as it has a rational basis for doing so".

For the family leave law, the difference was that sex discrimination, when engaged in by the government, is presumed to be unconstitutional, unlike discrimination against the elderly and the disabled, which the court's precedents deem acceptable as long as the discrimination has a "rational" basis.

If Congress had a "rational basis" for its laws, the Court would affirm them.

He said New York law allowed them to sue if they had "a rational basis" for their fear.

He instead relied on a relatively lenient test, asking whether the law had a rational basis for its discrimination.

"First, the provision regulates economic activity that Congress had a rational basis to believe has substantial effects on interstate commerce," Judge Martin wrote.

Like many fears, the anxiety about going to a hospital emergency room in July appears, at least on the surface, to have a rational basis.