Legal Opinion
Tipco Corp., Inc. v. City of Billings
Montana Supreme Court
Decided March 28, 1982No. 81-330PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Haswell
The City of Billings enacted an ordinance declaring uninvited door-to-door solicitations a nuisance punishable as a misdemeanor and exempting local merchants with regularly established places of business from its operation. The District Court held the ordinance valid. We reverse.
Plaintiff Tipco Corporation is a foreign corporation with no business office in Montana. Twelve sales 'agents of Tipco, licensed and bonded under Montana statutes, were selling magazine subscriptions door-to-door in Billings during March 1981. These sales agents depended on door-to-door solicitations for their…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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- Loving v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Dunn v. BlumsteinSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Frontiero v. RichardsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Graham v. RichardsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
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3Cited by22 opinions
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- Holmes v. Maryland Reclamation Associates, Inc.Court of Special Appeals of Maryland · 1992
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