Marsh v. Alabama

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Marsh v. Alabama, 326 U.S. 501 (1946), was a case decided by the United States Supreme Court, in which it ruled that a state trespassing statute could not be used to prevent the distribution of religious materials on a town's sidewalk, notwithstanding the fact that the sidewalk where the distribution was taking place was part of a privately owned company town. The Court based its ruling on the provisions of the First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment. Warning: template has been deprecated.

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Concurring Opinion: Frankfurter

Dissenting Opinion: Reed

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326 U.S. 501

Marsh v. Alabama

Argued: and Submitted Dec. 7, 1945. --- Decided: Jan 7, 1946

On Appeal from the Court of Appeals of the State of Alabama.

Mr. Hayden C. Covington, of Brooklyn, N.Y., for appellants.

Mr. William N. McQueen, of Montgomery, Ala., for appellee.

Mr. Justice BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

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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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