What is the test for invalidating a statute?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Professional Engineers v. Department of Transportation, 15 Cal.4th 543, 63 Cal.Rptr.2d 467, 936 P.2d 473 (Cal. 1997):
This statement is an evolution of Stevenson v. Colgan (1891) 91 Cal. 649, 652-653, 27 P. 1089: "While the courts have undoubted power to declare a [15 Cal.4th 588] statute invalid, when it appears to them in the course of judicial action to be in conflict with the constitution, yet they can only do so when the question arises as a pure question of law, unmixed
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