Practice question
To discourage prostitution, a city bans every short-time hotel admission and every second admission to a room in a day. The measure also bars lawful daytime rest by travelers and other innocent uses. The city offers the moral objective as a complete answer to these burdens. Applying White Light, what is the strongest objection?
- Public morals can never be a police-power objective.
- The ordinance's broad means unduly burden legitimate liberty and privacy despite a proper objective.
- Hotels are absolutely immune from regulation.
- Only hotel owners can possess constitutional rights.
- The ordinance is valid whenever it reduces hotel revenue.
Legal references
- RA 7160, Section 16: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1991/ra_7160_1991.html
- White Light Corp. v. City of Manila, G.R. No. 122846, January 20, 2009, main decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2009/jan2009/gr_122846_2009.html
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