Donna Walls, widow of Rocky Walls v. Brayman Construction

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding unconstitutional a law that required persons to register with the government before being allowed to solicit door-to-door or canvass for candidates
• finding the term \civic\ vague when striking down ordinances that required permits for door-to-door solicitation but that exempted civic organizations
• explaining the “twin concerns of inadequate notice and arbitrary or discriminatory enforcement are especially pronounced when a regulation implicates speech” (quotation marks omitted)
• finding the term “civic” vague when striking down ordinances that required permits for door-to-door solicitation but that exempted civic organizations
• stating the general test for vagueness applies with particular force in review of laws dealing with speech
• overturning, as unconstitutionally vague, ordinance conditioning right to solicit door-to-door on giving advance written notice to police

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).