Lovell v. City of Griffin

Lovell v. City of Griffin
by Charles Evans Hughes

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Lovell v. City of Griffin, GA, 303 U.S. 444 (1938), was a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. This case was remarkable in its discussion of the requirement of persons to seek government sanction to distribute religious material. In this particular case, the Supreme Court ruled it was not constitutional for a city to require such sanction. Warning: template has been deprecated.

890124Lovell v. City of Griffin — SyllabusCharles Evans Hughes

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303 U.S. 444

Lovell v. City of Griffin

Argued: and Submitted Feb. 4, 1938. --- Decided: March 28, 1938

Mr. O. R. Moyle, of Brooklyn, N.Y., for appellant.

Messrs. Hughes Spalding and Sumter M. Kelley, both of Atlanta, Ga., for respondent.

[Argument of Counsel from pages 444-446 intentionally omitted]

Mr. Chief Justice HUGHES 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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