California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Alvarado v. Superior Court, 52 Cal.App.4th 939, 60 Cal.Rptr.2d 854 (Cal. App. 1997):
In any event, despite their source, such fundamental societal rights are recognized as limiting individual constitutional rights: "Often the public interest in tranquillity, security, and protection is invoked only to be blithely dismissed, subordinated to the paramount right of the individual. In this case, however, the true nature of the trade-off becomes painfully obvious." ( People ex rel. Gallo v. Acuna, supra, 14 Cal.4th at p. 1102, 60 Cal.Rptr.2d 277, 929 P.2d 596 [slip opn., p. 4].)
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