Legal Opinion
Paul A. Stern v. Tarrant County Hospital District v. George J. Luibel
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 18, 1985No. 83-1638PublishedCited by 92 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:
We reaffirm today the settled constitutional rule that state agencies may pursue legitimate purposes by any means having a conceivable rational relationship to those purposes. A decision that passes constitutional muster under the rational-basis test does not violate the equal protection clause simply because it violates a state anti-discrimination statute.
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Five osteopaths were denied staff privileges by the John Peter Smith Hospital, which is operated by the Tarrant County Hospital District, a Texas state agency, because they had trained in an…
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