Chevron USA, Inc. v. Bronster

At issue in this case is the constitutionality of Hawai’i’s Act 257, which controls the rent an oil company can charge its dealer/lessees. There are two different constitutional tests that could conceivably apply *859to Act 257. The first is the “reasonableness” test ordinarily applied to rent and price control statutes. See, e.g., Pennell v. City of San Jose, 485 U.S. 1, 11, 108 S.Ct. 849, 99 L.Ed.2d 1 (1988) (upholding a rent control ordinance because it was not “arbitrary, discriminatory, or demonstrably irrelevant to the policy the legislature is free to adopt”) (quoting Permian Basin Area…