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Murdock v. Pennsylvania , 319 U.S. 105 (1943), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that an ordinance requiring door-to-door salespersons ("solicitors") to purchase a license was an unconstitutional tax on religious exercise.
Overruling Jones v. City of Opelika I on rehearing Murdock v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: 319 U.S. 105 (1943) licensing fee for door-to-door solicitors was an unconstitutional tax on the Jehovah's Witnesses' right to freely exercise their religion—decided same day as Jones v. City of Opelika II: Martin v. Struthers: 319 U.S. 141 (1943)
In the one paragraph per curiam decision Jones v. City of Opelika (II), 319 U.S. 103 (1943), [2] the Court vacated Jones v. City of Opelika (1942) on the basis of the principles articulated in Murdock v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; a state may not prohibit distribution of religious handbills where handbills seek to raise funds in a lawful ...
The Court ultimately affirmed the decision of the state court on the federal law and did not decide the two issues of state law. Murdock v. Memphis is cited today as instrumental in establishing the principle that interpretation of state law is the province of the state courts, and that, in particular, the state Supreme Courts, rather than the ...
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Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Citizens (PARC) v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 334 F. Supp. 1257 (E.D. Pa. 1971), was a case where the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was sued by the Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Citizens (PARC), now The Arc of Pennsylvania, over a law that gave public schools the authority to deny a free education to children who had reached the age of 8, yet had ...
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Friday that mail-in ballots with incorrect dates will not be counted in November, reversing a previous ruling from a lower court in the battleground state. The ...
Marion County Circuit Court Judge Audrey J. Broyles expressed frustration this week with a federal court ruling that said she could not send a man she deemed a public safety risk to weekly ...