Steve Gallardo, an Individual; Lydia Guzman, an Individual; Marcus Lara, an Individual; Rose Marie Duran Lopez, An…

Summary

The Arizona Supreme Court held that the statute requiring two additional at-large members on community college district boards in counties with at least three million residents is not an unconstitutional special law. The court clarified that constitutionality is reviewed de novo, that the statute must satisfy rational-basis, inclusiveness, and elasticity requirements, and that elasticity does not require probable entry into the classification within a particular time. The court vacated the court of appeals’ decision and affirmed the superior court’s judgment.