Legal Opinion
Garland Strother and Ernestine Holt for Her Minor Daughter, Jimmye Blalock v. Allen C. Thompson
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 14, 1967No. 23033PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COLEMAN, Circuit Judge:
The appeal in this case squarely raises a single issue: Is an Ordinance of the City of Jackson, Mississippi, 1 enacted June 25, 1940, requiring the issuance of a permit for the distribution of handbills and like objects, void on its face as in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution ?
On June 13, 1965, without first obtaining a permit therefor as required by the Ordinance in question, plaintiffs distributed certain leaflets in the City of Jackson. They were arrested and put in jail. Others engaged in distributing similar…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Schneider v. State (Town of Irvington)Supreme Court of the United States · 1939
- Lovell v. City of GriffinSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Kunz v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1951
- Valentine v. ChrestensenSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Poulos v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Hall Davis v. John G. FrancoisCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1968
- Alfred Wright, .V the City of Montgomery, AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969
- University Committee to End the War in Viet Nam v. GunnDistrict Court, W.D. Texas · 1968
- Lawrence Guyot v. M. B. PierceCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1967
- Gannett Co. v. City of RochesterNew York Supreme Court · 1972
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