Williamson v. Lee Optical Co.
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| Williamson v. Lee Optical Co. | |||||||||||
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| Argued March 2, 1955 Decided March 28, 1955 |
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| The Court held that state laws regulating business will only be subject to rational basis review, and that the Court need not contemplate all possible reasons for legislation. | |||||||||||
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| Chief Justice: Earl Warren Associate Justices: Hugo Black, Stanley Forman Reed, Felix Frankfurter, William O. Douglas, Harold Hitz Burton, Tom C. Clark, Sherman Minton, John Marshall Harlan II |
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| Majority by: Douglas Joined by: unanimous Harlan took no part in the consideration or decision of the case. |
Williamson v. Lee Optical Co., 348 U.S. 483 (1955),[1] was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that state laws regulating business will only be subject to rational basis review, and that the Court need not contemplate all possible reasons for legislation.
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- ^ 348 U.S. 483 Full text of the opinion courtesy of Findlaw.com
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