Legal Opinion
Busey v. District of Columbia
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided November 8, 1943No. 7918PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDGERTON, Associate Justice.
Appellants were convicted of selling copies of Consolation and Watch Tower, magazines published by Jehovah’s Witnesses, on the streets of the District of Columbia without paying a license “tax” or fee and in other respects complying with the license law. Each appellant was sentenced to a fine of $5, or one day in jail.
The appeal has been here before. When we decided it in April, 1942, 2 the majority of this court thought that decisions of the Supreme Court required us to hold the statute valid. In cases from other jurisdictions which it decided two months later,…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Cantwell v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
- West Virginia State Board of Education v. BarnetteSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Palko v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1937
- Near v. Minnesota Ex Rel. OlsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
- Stromberg v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
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3Cited by24 opinions
- Commonwealth Ex Rel. Hines v. WinfreeSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1962
- City of Corona v. Corona Daily IndependentCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1953
- Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Ass'n v. New Mexico Board of PharmacyNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 1974
- Chester Branch, National Ass'n for Advancement of Colored People v. City of ChesterDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1966
- New Times, Inc. v. Arizona Board of RegentsCourt of Appeals of Arizona · 1973
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