Lehon v. City of Atlanta
Citations
- 242 U.S. 53
- 37 S. Ct. 70
- 61 L. Ed. 145
- 1916 U.S. LEXIS 1528
Syllabus
<p>Ordinances of a city which subject the business of private detectives and detective agencies to police supervision, and provide that' no person shall engage in such business without first obtaining recommendation by the Board of Police Commissioners, taking the oath prescribed for city detectives and giving a bond in the sum of $1,000 to secure proper conduct, do not violate the Fourteenth Amendment.</p> <p>A contention to the contrary is not, however, frivolous.</p> <p>A State, under her police power, may supervise and regulate the police business within her limits and all that pertains to it, and this as regards the citizens of other States as well as her own.</p> <p>Even though the ordinances were construed by local officials, m other cases, as excluding nonresidents from the detective business in Georgia, one who made no application to comply with them and thus failed to obtain a constrúction of them in his own case, is not entitled to raise in this court the question whether they discriminate against him as a citizen of another State. Gundling v. Chicago, 177 U. S. 183.</p>
How courts have described this case
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- non-resident who never applied for permit lacked standing to challenge licensing ordinance on ground that city officials discriminate in favor of residents in awarding licenses
- non-resident who never applied for permit lacked standing to challenge licensing ordinance on ground that city officials discriminate in favor of residents in awarding licenses
- non-resident who did not apply for a permit lacked standing to challenge allegedly discriminatory licensing ordinance
- non-resident who did not apply for a permit lacked standing to challenge allegedly discriminatory licensing ordinance
- non-resident who never applied for permit lacked standing to challenge licensing ordinance on ground that city officials discriminate in favor of residents in awarding licenses
- non-resident who never applied for permit lacks standing to challenge licensing ordinance on ground that city discriminates in favor of residents
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Judges: McKenna
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