Legal Opinion
National Geographic Society v. California Board of Equalization
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 4, 1977No. 75-1868PublishedCited by 169 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brennan
Appellant National Geographic Society, a nonprofit scientific and educational corporation of the District of Columbia, maintains two offices in California that solicit advertising copy for the Society’s monthly magazine, the National Geographic Magazine. However, the offices perform no activities related to the Society’s operation of a mail-order business for the sale from the District of Columbia of maps, atlases, globes, and books. Orders for these items are mailed from California directly to appellant’s Washington, D. C., headquarters on coupons or forms enclosed with announcements mailed…
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