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Mcgowan Vs. Maryland

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  • US Supreme Court
  • May 29, 1961

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  1. United States Vs. Raines US Supreme Court · Feb 29, 1960
  2. Tileston Vs. Ullman US Supreme Court · Feb 01, 1943
  3. Barrows Vs. Jackson US Supreme Court · Jun 15, 1953
  4. Cantwell Vs. Connecticut US Supreme Court · May 20, 1940
  5. Murdock Vs. Pennsylvania US Supreme Court · May 03, 1943
  6. Soon Hing Vs. Crowley US Supreme Court · Mar 16, 1885
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  7. U.S. 420 (1961) U.S. Supreme Court McGowan v. Maryland
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  8. U.S. 420 (1961) McGowan v. Maryland
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  9. discrimination will not be set aside if any state of facts reasonably may be conceived to justify it. See Koch v. Board
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  10. Metropolitan Casualty Ins. Co. v. Brownell
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  11. Lindsley v. Natural
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  12. Atchison, T. & S.F. R. Co. v. Matthews
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  13. are invidious, that local tradition and custom might not rationally call for this legislative treatment. See Salsburg v. Maryland
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  14. Kotch Page 366 U. S. 427 v. Board
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  15. counties is generally a matter for legislative discretion. We find no invidious discrimination here. See Salsburg v. Maryland
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  16. making a reasonable investigation at a nearby bathing beach or amusement park within the county. See United States v. Harriss
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  17. there is no necessity to guess at the statute's meaning in order to determine what conduct it makes criminal. Connally v. General
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  18. not raised in the Maryland Court of Appeals, nor are they raised here. Thus, we cannot consider the matter. Whitney v. California
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  19. prospective patrons, we Page 366 U. S. 430 have no occasion here to consider the standing question of Pierce v. Society
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  20. rights are allegedly impaired by the statutes are not without effective ways to assert these rights. Cf. NAACP v. Alabama
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  21. present no weighty countervailing policies here to cause an exception to our general principles. See United States v. Raines
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  22. Thus, in Everson v. Board
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  23. these cases further evidences the evolution of Sunday laws as temporal statutes. Mr. Justice Field wrote in Soon Hing v. Crowley
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  24. This was quoted with approval by Mr. Justice Harlan in Hennington v. Georgia
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  25. Id. at 163 U. S. 304 . And Mr. Chief Justice Fuller cited both of these passages in Petit v. Minnesota
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  26. position Sunday Closing Laws have occupied with reference to the First Amendment should be undertaken, Everson v. Board
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  27. America, as particularly relevant in the search for the First Amendment's meaning. See the opinions in Everson v. Board
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  28. In Reynolds v. United
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  29. Everson v. Board
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  30. against religious establishment far more extensive than merely to forbid a national or state church. Thus, in McCollum v. Board
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  31. may disagree with others does not invalidate the regulation. So too with the questions of adultery and polygamy. Davis v. Beason
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  32. Reynolds v. United
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  33. Clause's latitude Page 366 U. S. 443 is to be found in Everson v. Board
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  34. Kilgour v. Miles
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  35. Gill and Johnson 268, 274. This language was cited with approval in Judefind v. State
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  36. of the Maryland Court of Appeals dispel any argument that the statutes' announced purpose is religious. In Hiller v. Maryland
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  37. Id. at 393, 92 A. at 844. See also Levering v. Williams
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  38. McGowan v. State
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  39. way that does not unduly or unnecessarily infringe upon the religious provisions of the First Amendment. See Cantwell v. Connecticut
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  40. of religion. The distinctions between the statutes in the case before us and the state action in McCollum v. Board
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  41. may be of different dimensions and proportions, requiring different remedies. Or so the legislature may think. Tigner v. Texas
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  42. step at a time, addressing itself to the phase of the problem which seems most acute to the legislative mind. Semler v. Dental
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  43. U. S. 608 . The legislature may select one phase of one field and apply a remedy there, neglecting the others. AFL v. American
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  44. Williamson v. Lee
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  45. West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
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  46. McCollum v. Board
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  47. to raise this contention. He believes that their claim is without merit for the reasons expressed in Braunfeld v. Brown
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  48. post, p. 366 U. S. 599 , at pp. 366 U. S. 602 -610, and Gallagher v. Crown
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  49. Religious Assessments, Par. 8, reprinted in the Appendix to Mr. Justice Rutledge's dissenting opinion in Everson v. Board
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  50. Cf. Doremus v. Board
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