[1] A large discount store in Anne Arundel County, Maryland was fined for selling goods on a Sunday, in violation of a local blue law.

The Court said that the Constitution does not ban federal or state regulation of conduct whose reason or effect merely happens to coincide with the tenets of some or all religions.

[2] Since the general rule is that "a litigant may only assert his own constitutional rights or immunities," United States v. Raines, 362 U.S. 17, 22. we hold that appellants have no standing to raise this contention.

Chief Justice Warren again: ...the Court has [previously] held that the Fourteenth Amendment permits the States a wide scope of discretion in enacting laws which affect some groups of citizens differently than others.

He wrote: The Court picks and chooses language from various decisions to bolster its conclusion that these Sunday laws, in the modern setting, are "civil regulations."