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MARSH v. ALABAMA

No. 114.

326 U.S. 501 (1946)

66 S.Ct. 276

90 L.Ed. 265

MARSH v. ALABAMA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 7, 1946.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Hayden C. Covington, with whom Mr. Grover C. Powell was on the brief, for appellant.

William M. McQueen, Attorney General of Alabama, and John O. Harris, Assistant Attorney General, submitted for appellee.

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 by the Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation. Except for that it...

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