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sister projects: Wikipedia article, Wikidata itemFowler v. Rhode Island, 345 U.S. 67 (1953), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that a municipal ordinance which was used to penalize a minister of Jehovah's Witnesses for preaching at a peaceful religious meeting in a public park, although other religious groups could conduct religious services there with impunity, violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Warning: template has been deprecated.
United States Supreme Court
Fowler v. Rhode Island
Argued: Feb. 3, 1953. --- Decided: March 9, 1953
Mr. Hayden C. Covington, Brooklyn, N.Y., for appellant.
Mr. Raymond J. Pettine, Providence, R.I., for appellee.
Mr. Justice DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).
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