Kathy has a moral right to her family home, needlessly taken away through governmental negligence, while the Berhani family has the
legal right, and caught in the
tug -
of -
war is the would - be boyfriend, Lester, who sides with the moral rights as a man, but neglects his authority and responsibility to uphold the
legal rights.
The tension between the Constitutional limitations and the broad RCW touches on what
legal experts refer to as Dillon's Rule vs. Home rule, referring to the ongoing
tug of war between city and state authority.