Legal Opinion
Douglas v. City of Jeannette
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 3, 1943No. Nos. 450, 480—487, 238PublishedCited by 929 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Stone
Petitioners brought this suit in the United States District Court for Western Pennsylvania to restrain threatened criminal prosecution of them in the state courts by respondents, the City of Jeannette (a Pennsylvania municipal corporation) and its Mayor, for violation of a city ordinance which prohibits the solicitation of orders for merchandise without first procuring a license from the city authorities and paying a license tax. The ordinance as applied is held to be an unconstitutional abridgment of free speech, press and religion in Murdock v. Pennsylvania, ante, p. 105. The questions…
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