The issue focused on the court's legal opinion in the case of United States v. Salerno, in which the court held that the rights of one person to take an action and to cause a court to act on that action "embody[s] the rights of the people to make their own laws, to protect their own rights, and to protect the rights of other people to their own rights."

The court's legal opinion in the case of United States v. Salerno, in which the court