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Supreme Court· 5/3/1943

Murdock v. Pennsylvania

Citations

  • 319 U.S. 105
  • 63 S. Ct. 870
  • 87 L. Ed. 1292
  • 1943 U.S. LEXIS 711
  • 146 A.L.R. 81

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding that a state may charge a fee as a precondition for soliciting only where that fee is “calculated to defray the expense” of protecting the public from abusive solicitors
  • holding that the hand distribution of religious materials are protected speech
  • holding municipal ordinance unconstitutional which, in application, required religious colporteurs to pay a tax in order to pursue their religious convictions
  • holding that the hand distribution of religious materials are protected speech
  • holding that distribution of religious tracts is protected
  • invalidating a flat tax on solicitation as applied to the dissemination of religious ideas

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Judges: Douglas, Frankfurter, Jackson, Reed, Roberts

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