Marsh v. Alabama

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1946-01-28

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Mr. Justice Black delivered the opinion of the Court. In this case we are asked to decide whether a State, consistently with the First and Fourteenth Amendments, can impose criminal punishment on a person who undertakes to distribute religious literature on the premises of a company-owned town contrary to the wishes of the town’s management. The town, a suburb of Mobile, Alabama, known as Chickasaw, is owned…

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