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Niemotko Vs. Maryland

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jan 15, 1951

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  7. U.S. 268 (1951) U.S. Supreme Court Niemotko v. Maryland
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  8. U.S. 268 (1951) Niemotko v. Maryland
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  9. of lower courts, but will reexamine the evidentiary basis on which those conclusions are founded. See Feiner v. New
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  10. times examined the licensing systems by which local bodies regulate the use of their parks and public places. See Kunz v. New
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  11. York, decided this day, post, p. 340 U. S. 290 . See also Saia v. New
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  12. Hague v. CIO
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  13. Lovell v. Griffin
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  14. absence of narrowly drawn, reasonable and definite standards for the officials to follow, must be invalid. See Kunz v. New
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  15. Together with No. 18, Kelley v. Maryland
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  16. a general limitation upon what may be said or written bring additional factors into the equation. Cases like Near v. Minnesota
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  17. and Grosjean v. American
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  18. in public places. But here also enter economic and social interests outside the situations before us. See Hughes v. Superior
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  19. scarcely justify prohibiting the dissemination of information by handbills or censoring their contents. In Lovell v. Griffin
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  20. Id. at 303 U. S. 451 . In Hague v. CIO
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  21. U. S. 496 , a portion of the ordinance declared invalid prohibited the distribution of pamphlets. In Schneider v. State
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  22. three of the four ordinances declared invalid by the Court prohibited the distribution of pamphlets. In Jamison v. Texas
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  23. fraud and from criminals who use solicitation as a device to enter homes. The fourth ordinance considered in Schneider v. State
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  24. in effect held the power of censorship. In Cantwell v. Connecticut
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  25. Id. at 310 U. S. 305 . Again, in Largent v. Texas
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  26. in control of a company town or Government housing project to prohibit solicitation by Jehovah's Witnesses. Marsh v. Alabama
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  27. U. S. 517 . In Thomas v. Collins
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  28. another opposing interest -- the right of the community to raise funds for the support of the government. In Jones v. Opelika
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  29. U. S. 103 , vacating 316 U. S. 584 , and in Murdock v. Pennsylvania
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  30. U. S. 105 , the Court held that imposition of the tax upon itinerants was improper. In Follett v. McCormick
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  31. the imposition of a flat tax on book agents upon a resident who made his living selling religious books. 4. Martin v. Struthers
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  32. distributed on behalf of Jehovah's Witnesses. 5. In contrast to these decisions, the Court held in Prince v. Massachusetts
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  33. for which streets and parks exist. (a) The pioneer case concerning speaking in parks and streets is Davis v. Massachusetts
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  34. of the opinion below written by Mr. Justice Holmes, while on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Commonwealth v. Davis
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  35. the right of a city to exercise any power over its parks, however, arbitrary or discriminatory, was rejected in Hague v. CIO
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  36. And the construction given the ordinance in the State courts gave the licensing officials wide discretion. See Thomas v. Casey
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  37. to suppress free expression, no matter under what cover of law they purported to act. Page 340 U. S. 280 Cox v. New
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  38. each case. (b) Two cases have involved the additional considerations incident to the use of sound trucks. In Saia v. New
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  39. refused because of the content of the speeches. Nevertheless, the Court held the ordinance unconstitutional. In Kovacs v. Cooper
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  40. on a limitation upon speech by a sanction imposed after the event, rather than by a licensing statute. In Cantwell v. Connecticut
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  41. was for common law breach of the peace. The problem was resolved in favor of the defendant by reference to Schenck v. United
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  42. U.S. at 310 U. S. 311 . In Chaplinsky v. New
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  43. it involved a conviction for breach of peace in a private building, rather than in a public place. In Terminiello v. Chicago
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  44. procedure under which it is applied, too readily permits censorship of religion by the licensing authorities. Cantwell v. Connecticut
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  45. questions merely by phrasing its opinion in terms of an ultimate standard which in itself satisfies due process. Watts v. Indiana
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  46. Baumgartner v. United
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  47. Appleby v. New
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  48. favor of Kunz, a man whose vituperative utterances must have been highly offensive to them. As was said in Hague v. CIO
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  49. In M'Ara v. Magistrates
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  50. underlying the present appeal. The first time, the Court had to consider the ordinance was on an appeal from People v. Smith
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