Curran v. Price

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the required records doctrine was not applicable to Maryland’s “Son of Sam” statute because the statute was not regulatory but concerned an inherently criminal area
• holding that if a statute is susceptible to two reasonable interpretations, one of which would involve a decision as to its constitutionality, the preferred construction is the one which avoids the constitutional question
• holding that if a statute is susceptible to two reasonable interpretations, one of which would involve a decision as to its constitutionality, the preferred construction is the one which avoids the constitutional question
• discussing \heavy burden\ imposed on speech by initial review process of Maryland's Son of Sam statute
• “[A] person may not claim the privilege based on Incrimination that may result from the contents or nature of the thing demanded.’ ”
• “If a statute is susceptible of two reasonable interpretations, one of which would involve a decision as to its constitutionality, the preferred construction is that which avoids the determination of constitutionality”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).