Quad-City Community News Service, Inc. v. Jebens

How courts have described this case

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• stating “any classification which serves to penalize or restrain the exercise of a First Amendment right, unless shown to be necessary to promote a compelling governmental interest, is unconstitutional”
• when government devises standards to be employed in issuing press passes, the standards must be applied to all organizations that apply for passes
• selective denial of access to police department records to “underground” paper without showing of compelling state interest is unconstitutional
• “where public officials ... employ criteria that are either vague or completely unknown, the party affected has no way of knowing how to achieve compliance with the criteria nor even of challenging them as being improper.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).