Legal Opinion
Dunagin v. City of Oxford, Miss.
District Court, N.D. Mississippi
Decided May 2, 1980No. WC 79-83-WK-PPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION
READY, Chief Judge.
This class-action lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of Mississippi laws that ban the advertising of certain alcoholic beverages. At issue is whether the free speech clause of the First Amendment prevents the state from forbidding liquor advertisements and whether the Twenty-first Amendment empowers the state to ban liquor advertisements regardless of any First Amendment protections. Suit was brought by the editor and business manager of The Daily Mississippian, a newspaper published by students of the University of Mississippi at Oxford.…
2Cases cited41 opinions
- New York Times Co. v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- United States v. O'BrienSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Roth v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Chaplinsky v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Dunagin v. City of OxfordCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1983
- Harrison v. StateCourt of Appeals of Alaska · 1984
- Lamar Outdoor Advertising, Inc. v. Mississippi State Tax CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1983
- Kathy Dunagin v. The City of Oxford, Mississippi, the State of Mississippi, Intervenor-Appellee. Lamar Outdoor Advertising, Inc. v. Mississippi State Tax CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1983
- Lamar Outdoor Advertising, Inc. v. Mississippi State Tax CommissionDistrict Court, S.D. Mississippi · 1982
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