Williamson v. Lee Optical Co.

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Williamson v. Lee Optical Co.

Supreme Court of the United States

Argued March 2, 1955
Decided March 28, 1955


Full case name:	Mac Q. Williamson, Attorney General of Oklahoma, et al. v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Incorporated, et al.

Citations:	348 U.S. 483; 75 S. Ct. 461; 99 L. Ed. 563; 1955 U.S. LEXIS 1003

Prior history:	Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma

Holding

The Court held that state laws regulating business will only be subject to rational basis review, and that the Court need not contemplate all possible reasons for legislation.

Court membership

Chief Justice: Earl Warren
Associate Justices: Hugo Black, Stanley Forman Reed, Felix Frankfurter, William O. Douglas, Harold Hitz Burton, Tom C. Clark, Sherman Minton, John Marshall Harlan II

Case opinions

Majority by: Douglas
Joined by: unanimous
Harlan took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.

Williamson v. Lee Optical Co., 348 U.S. 483 (1955),^[1] was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that state laws regulating business will only be subject to rational basis review, and that the Court need not contemplate all possible reasons for legislation.