Court Opinion

ID: 9826499
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 16:01:19.461274+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:04:29.783239
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Marion
: I dissent. With the utmost deference, the conclusion reached is, in my judgment, demonstrably unsound; but, as argumentative elaboration of my views would subserve no useful purpose, I shall content myself with this brief observation. Conceding that the validity of a police regulation is ultimately a judicial question, the premises upon which the decision proceeds are arbitrarily assumed, as I think, in violation of the fundamental and salutary rule that every presumption shall be indulged in favor of the good faith and ordinary common sense of a legislative body; and the conclusion involves, as I apprehend, a radical and dangerous departure, from the settled law of this jurisdiction, that where the subject of the regulation is within the legislative jurisdiction and the measure enacted bears any substantial relation to the public safety and convenience ior to the general welfare, the reasonableness of a police, regulation is entirely a matter for the legislative department of government, and not for the Courts. To foresee the consequences of a departure from that position requires no gift of prophecy.