Court Opinion

ID: 9460108
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 21:41:51.726459+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:36:29.233247
License: Public Domain

LEWIS, Chief Judge
(concurring):
I concur but consider it appropriate to emphasize or reemphasize the limited posture of the case within which the issues are both presented to the court and determined by our decision.
This is not a medical practice case. As a consequence we do not consider and certainly do not determine that the giving of a curative drug for a venereal disease not diagnosed as existent is acceptable medical practice. Nor do we, in holding that the subject ordinance is neither unconstitutional on its face nor unconstitutionally applied to appellant, hold that the ordinance is constitutional in toto. A statute is not unconstitutional on its face if objectionable features are clearly severable or if its contained language can be reasonably interpreted to project a constitutionally accepted standard.
In the case at bar we are concerned • only with the self-imposed plight of a prostitute and the admitted occupational hazard of venereal disease to her and through her to the community. We do not hold that a vagrant is similarly situated nor are we required, at this time, to spell out the limitations, if any, that the word “suspicion” may have as a legal standard. Sufficient cause existed in this case for the authorities to consider appellant to be a probable health hazard to the community. ■