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GROSJEAN v. AMERICAN PRESS CO.

No. 303.

297 U.S. 233 (1936)

56 S.Ct. 444

80 L.Ed. 660

GROSJEAN, SUPERVISOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS OF LOUISIANA, v. AMERICAN PRESS CO., INC., ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 10, 1936.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles J. Rivet, with whom Mr. Gaston L. Porterie, Attorney General of Louisiana, was on the brief, for appellant.

Messrs. Esmond Phelps and Elisha Hanson, with whom Messrs. Bennett C. Clark, J.J. Davidson, Jr., Eberhard P. Deutsch, Ben B. Taylor, and John H. Tucker, Jr., were on the brief, for appellees.

MR. JUSTICE SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.

This suit was brought by appellees, nine publishers of newspapers in the State of Louisiana, to enjoin the enforcement against them of the provisions of § 1 of the act of the legislature of Louisiana known as Act No. 23, passed and approved July 12, 1934, as follows:

"That every person, firm, association, or corporation, domestic or foreign, engaged in...

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