Vision Mining, Inc. v. Gardner

Under the rational basis review, this Court should not overturn legislative action on Equal Protection grounds “unless the varying treatment of different groups or persons is so unrelated to the achieve*476ment of any combination of legitimate purposes that we can only conclude that the [General Assembly’s] actions were irrational.” 43 And we should be “quite reluctant to overturn [legislative] action”44 even if “the law seems unwise or works to the disadvantage of a particular group, or if the rationale for it seems tenuous.”45 In my view, the majority opinion reaches its intended result by…