Scope and Contents From the File: The ACLU filed an amicus brief on behalf of Gail Manning who appealed her conviction of a violation of section 316 of the Penal Code, in which, according to such code, she "did willfully and unlawfully keep a house used for the purpose of assignation or prostitution, and did let rooms, apartments, or tenements, knowing that it [sic] was to be used for the purpose of assignation or prostitution." She asserted that this language, written in 1872 and amended once between 1873-1874, was...