Martin v. City of Struthers

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Martin v. City of Struthers
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Martin v. Struthers, 319 U.S. 141 (1943), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a law prohibiting the distribution of handbills from door to door violated the First Amendment rights of a Jehovah's Witness. Warning: template has been deprecated.

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Concurring Opinion: Murphy

Dissenting Opinions: Frankfurter; Reed

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United States Supreme Court

319 U.S. 141

Martin v. City of Struthers

Argued: March 11, 1943. --- Decided: May 3, 1943

Mr. Hayden C. Covington, of Brooklyn, N.Y., for appellant.

Messrs. Theodore T. Macejko and David C. Haynes, both of Youngstown, Ohio, for appellee.

Mr. Justice BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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