Largent v. Texas

Largent v. State of Texas

Supreme Court of the United States

Argued February 12, 1943
Decided March 8, 1943

Full case name

Largent v. State of Texas

Citations

63 S. Ct. 667; 87 L. Ed. 873; 1943 U.S. LEXIS 890

Court membership

Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone

Associate Justices Owen J. Roberts · Hugo Black Stanley F. Reed · Felix Frankfurter William O. Douglas · Frank Murphy Robert H. Jackson · Wiley B. Rutledge

Case opinions

Majority

Reed, joined by Stone, Roberts, Black, Frankfurter, Douglas, Murphy, Jackson

Rutledge took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.

Largent v. Texas, 318 U.S. 418 (1943),^[1] was a case involving Jehovah's Witnesses in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that a city ordinance of Paris, Texas requiring permits in order to solicit orders for books is unconstitutional as applied to the distribution of religious publications. The church members were represented by Hayden C. Covington.

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