What is the test for equal protection in the context of discrimination in a disability classification case?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Holloway v. Arthur Andersen & Co., 566 F.2d 659 (9th Cir. 1977):

Assuming briefly that appellant has properly raised an equal protection argument, we find no merit to it. Normally, any rational classification or discrimination is presumed valid. That is, a statute is constitutional if the classification or discrimination it contains has some rational relationship to a legitimate government interest, unless the statute is based upon an inherently suspect classification, in which case the statute requires close judicial scrutiny. Graham v. Richardson, 403 U.S. 365, 371-72, 91 S.Ct. 1848, 29 L.Ed.2d 534 (1971).

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