The following excerpt is from American Re-Insurance Co. v. Insurance Com'r of State of Cal., 696 F.2d 1267 (9th Cir. 1983):
Because this economic legislation does not affect fundamental rights or rely on suspect classifications, it does not offend the equal protection clause of the United States Constitution unless the classification bears no rational relationship to a legitimate state interest. City of New Orleans v. Dukes, 427 U.S. 297, 96 S.Ct. 2513, 49 L.Ed.2d 511 (1976). This classification is rationally related to the state's interest in preserving insolvent insurers' assets for the liquidators' distribution pursuant to statutory priorities.
The judgment is affirmed.
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