Legal Opinion
Opinion of the Justices to the Senate
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 25, 1924PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Ordered, That the Senate require the opinions of the Honorable the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court on the following important questions of law: —
*5901. May the General Court, if it finds that prices and other conditions attending the sale of tickets of admission to theatres or other public places of amusement, requiring a license under G. L. c. 140, § 181, are matters affected with a public interest, and that legislation is necessary for the purpose of safeguarding the public against fraud, extortion, exorbitant rates and like abuses in relation thereto, constitutionally enact legislation:…
2Cases cited37 opinions
- Munn v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
- Civil Rights CasesSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
- Adkins v. Children's Hospital of ColumbiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1923
- German Alliance Insurance v. LewisSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
- Chas. Wolff Packing Co. v. Court of Industrial RelationsSupreme Court of the United States · 1923
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3Cited by36 opinions
- Opinion of the Justices to the Senate & the House of RepresentativesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1925
- Sperry & Hutchinson Co. v. Director of the Division on the Necessaries of LifeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1940
- McMurdo v. GetterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1937
- Opinion of the Justices to the SenateMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1927
- Coffee-Rich, Inc. v. Commissioner of Public HealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1965
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