The established rational connection between earnings and income is being eroded.
Now, we don't believe that there is a rational connection between our performance and the price of the stock.
Both lower courts found a rational connection between the benefit restrictions and the government's interest in "fostering self-reliance and easing the burden on the welfare system," as the district court phrased it.
1532, 23 L.Ed.2d 57, that there be a "rational connection" between the basic facts that the prosecution proved and the ultimate fact presumed, and that the latter is "more likely than not to flow from" the former.
19 The rational connection between the remedy provided and the evil to be curbed, which in other contexts might support legislation against attack on due process grounds, will not suffice.
The burden of proof will remain on the accused, the court ruled, saying that such a system is fair so long as it is used with "uniform application" and there is "a rational connection between the facts presumed and the facts proved".
Finally, homeowners will continue each year to get tax bills in New York City in which there appears to be no rational connection between what the house is worth on the open market -- based on neighborhood sales -- and what the city assigns to the house as its assessed value, a result of a law that Ms. Stark also has said she thinks is flawed.
William Golding's wild and visionary Darkness Visible (1979) - Milton was very much in the air in the late 70s - makes almost no rational connection between the poles of its plot, the amoral twins Sophy and Toni, possessed of "phenomenal intelligence" and a destructive urge, the mystical outcast Mattie and the paedophile schoolmaster Sebastian Pedigree.
"First, there must be a 'valid, rational connection' between the prison regulation and the legitimate governmental interest put forward to justify it". 482 U.S., at 89, 107 S.Ct., at 2262 (quoting Block v. Rutherford, 468 U.S. 576, 586, 104 S.Ct. 3227, 3232, 82 L.Ed.2d 438 (1984)).
There must be some rational connection between s's x-ing and the subjective motivations to which s is actually already subject; otherwise the claim that s has reason to x must be rejected, as false or incoherent.
