Show MATERNITY ACT N STATUS Ml QUO Supreme Court Refuses To Pass Upon Its Validity WASHINGTON Juno tunc 4 The Th B I Casee brought to determine the constitutionality of ot the Sheppard Sheppard- thel I Towner maternity act were ills ills- missed for tor want ot of jurisdiction to to- to today day by the supreme court which b refused to pass poss upon the validity to-I to y ot of o the la lay law I Justice Sutherland rland announcing the courts court's opinion that the cases a could not bc on theIr Ir I merits pointed out that the tho case cases s caseIn in whIch the court hitherto ha had I assumed dIffered d front from the tho maternity cases es h I I I JU notI presented T questions only tia political and not nc I Th ITh The hl highest ih court rt justice erland said wm wa authority to pass pas upon questions Ho He asserted that a state had no ni right to bring suit to protect the rights Tights of citizens ol ot the United I States The federal I must look after the rights of Its It I citizens position he slid taking the tion that there thero was wa nothing pro pro pre to distinguish the t he citizens to such an an extent as IlS to Ih gho e the B state a n a right to act for them I Referring to tb the claims claim ot of o a a tax tax- taxI tax I payer as reported In the separate c cise ce e brou brought ht by Harriet A Froth I Inghan the justice assorted tha that the effect of ot the liw hw upon futures I taxes was wag so remote thit no n basis 3 was offered under which any ony court or equity could entertain the com coin plaInt The supreme u reme court will not as- as fume Burble jurisdiction over the author author- Ity authorIty of oC another and ordinate co B brench of ot the government the con con- gross ress the th justice said and wIlY will wll consider the constitutionality of ot a law only when there Is a II direct Is- Is Issue Is al sue presented in which the lega legal rIghts right of ot a citizen would be bo mi- mi II by some Orne enforcement nt which he h Is unable to escape I |