Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

intermediate scrutiny

Constitutional law. A standard lying between the extremes of rational-basis review and strict scrutiny. ( Under the standard, if a statute contains a quasi-suspect classification (such as gender or legitimacy), the classification must be substantially related to the achievement of an important governmental objective. - Also termed middle-level scrutiny; mid-level scrutiny; heightened scrutiny. Cf. STRICT SCRUTINY; RATIONAL-BASIS TEST.