Gambone v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• stating that law must not be “unreasonable, unduly oppressive or patently beyond the necessities of the case”
• striking down law as unconstitu tional for arbitrarily interfering with appellee’s right to pursue business “under the guise of protecting the public interests”
• limiting the size of signs showing the price of gas would not prevent fraud and larger, more visible signs might actually better prevent fraud and deception
• “Under the guise of protecting the public interests the legislature may not arbitrarily interfere with private business or impose unusual and unnecessary restrictions upon lawful occupations.”
• “We hold that the provision of the statute forbidding price signs in excess of the size therein prescribed violates Article I, sections 1 and 9 of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, [] and also the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and is therefore null and void.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).