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By basing their arguments on specific statutes rather than on the Constitution, both sides of the Supreme Court hewed to the tradition that cases ought to be disposed of wherever possible on nonconstitutional grounds.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chief among them is if it interferes with what is billed as a new and nonconstitutional right: the right to avoid having one's feelings hurt, or what Botstein calls a "subjective interpretation of harm."

From Time Magazine Archive