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a O e) ned Of by Jehovah's Withesses, “Congressional |» Justice Murphy, were “taxes/ment of the First Ametitiment, fypen the dissemination of reli-jnot secured against State infringe ous ideas” and as such placed “ajment by the Fourteenth Amen purden on freedom of speech, free-;ment.. © *..-° “Liberty very life piood of a free preas .. .|: " rtant as free speech and «|2tlves the ‘liberty’ which the due trea press are to a free govern-|Process clause guarantees. That ment,” Justice | Murphy continued. oeune protects only thelr prop- “There is x ht even more dear or. . : to many Individuala—the right to| By a 5-to3 decision the court up- worship their Maker according to|held the use of evidence obtained sage or their gospel to every living/When placed against s partition creature . ., petitioners were itin-| Wall, picks up sound waves origi- erant ministers going through the nating in & room beyond the wall) sitzets and from house to house/$nd amplifies them so that they in different communities, preach-|may be heard and transcribed by Bing the gospel by distributing /@ stenographer. The ease passed m booklets and’ pamphlets ‘setting|upon by the Supreme Court in- my forth their views of the Bible and; volved conversations between law- gf the tents of their faith.....-.. -;yeaTs and clients in a lawyer's 'loffice, F) Cites Colonial Situation Lo _ 1Invaaion of Privaey “For this the petitioners weére Bt, ‘taxed. The mind rebels at the} Justice Murphy, in a lone dis #| thought that a minister of aziy of/senting opinion, maintained that ‘{the old-estabiished churches could |this was an unconstitutional inva- {be made to pay fees to the com-lsion of privacy, The Fourth _j munity before entering the pulpit.;Amendment, he said, “puts # re ia “An arresting parallel exists be-!straint on the arm of the Govern- g tween the troubles of Jehova’s)ment itself and prevents jt from & Witnesses and the struggles of va-linvading the sanctity of a man's #Tious dissentient groups in. the{home or his private quarters in a % American Colonies for religious/cliase for a suspect except under freedom . .. in most of the col-jsafeguards calculated to prevent onles there was an established/oppression and abuse of authority * church and the way of the dis-|... Whether the search of private senter was hard, All sects includ-/quarters is accomplished by plac- ; ing Quaker, Methodist, Baptist,|ing on the outer walls of the ganc Episcopalian, Separatist, Rogerine,jtum a detectaphone that transmits and Catholic, suffered.” to the outside listener the int!- The Los Angeles Times was ad-imate details of private conversa- judged guilty and fined for con-|tion, or by new methods of pho tempt by a State court for pub-|tography that penetrate walls or lishing editorials concerning Jabor/overcome distances, the privacy of racketeering cases which had not/the citizen is equally invaded by been finaliy determined in all re-{agents of the Government and inti- spects. In this case the Supreme;mate personal matters are laid Court, by another 5 to 4 decision,/bare to view ... It is strange doc- repudiated the theory that judges|trine that keeps inviolate the most have the Common Law power or|/mundane observations entrusted could be authorized by statute to|to the permanence of paper but punish publications as contempts/allows the revelation of thoughts: on a finding of a mere tendency/uttered within the sanctity of pri- to interfere with the orderly ad-|vate quarters, thoughts perhaps too ministration of justice In a pend-|intimate to be set down even in ing case, Justices Murphy, Doug-/@ secret diary, or, indeed, utter: les, Reed and Jackson concurred/ances about which the Common in the majority opinion, delivered |Law drew the cloak of privilege— (by Justice Black, the most confidential revelations * The minority opinion, delivered |between husband and wife, client . ey Justice Prankfurter, advanced jand lawyer, patient and physician, e revolutionary. theory that free-|and ,penitent and spiritual m of the press, which is secured /viser. MF w f ° a vo ¥ ' 4 ~ + Mtn hit aa adnan onli omen, of circulation te the|/ment absorbs ine “Firat?” Frenk-| - their needs and the dictates of Dy Means of a detectaphone in a} : thetr souls and to carry thelr mes-/crimina] case. This tnstrument,|