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Last week the Supreme Court upheld the California decision. Speaking for a narrow, five-man majority, Justice Byron R. White declared that in its decision the California Supreme Court had not forbidden Californians either to repeal fair-housing laws or to enact laws making the state "neutral." All it did was to "reasonably" conclude that Section 26 affirmed discrimination as a state-guaranteed freedom. "We are dealing with a provision which does not just repeal an existing law forbidding racial discrimination," said White. "Section 26 was intended to authorize, and does authorize, racial discrimination in the housing market...
Last week those fears were put to rest by Cumberland County Judge Clinton R. Weidner, who ruled not only that Stevens' book is accurate and protected as free speech-but also that Stevens was actually too polite to Tycoon Frick. If his daughter were upheld, said Judge Weidner, "our bookshelves would be either empty or contain books written only by relatives of the subject." He added: "Miss Frick might as well try to enjoin publication and distribution of the Holy Bible because, being a descendant of Eve, she does not believe that Eve gave Adam the forbidden fruit...
...Court implied that electronic eavesdropping is legal only when the device can be planted without committing a physical trespass. This rule was upheld by the Court in Silverman V. United States...
...would seem inhumanly cruel were it not for the fact that it was done by human beings. Cruel it remains. Yes, "the law is the law," but God also made a law that applies in such a case. Or is God's law not as worthy of being upheld as that of California...
Social pressures do not change Mormon doctrine. It was not a "new revelation" that led Mormons to abandon polygamy but laws passed by Congress and upheld by the court of last resort-and Mormons obey the law of the land...