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	318 U.S. 418 (more) 63 S. Ct. 667; 87 L. Ed. 873; 1943 U.S. LEXIS 890
Court membership
Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone Associate Justices Owen Roberts · Hugo Black Stanley F. Reed · Felix Frankfurter William O. Douglas · Frank Murphy Robert H. Jackson · Wiley B. Rutledge
Case opinion
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), 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.

See also

• Jamison v. State of Texas: A similar case in Dallas

External links

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