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HEFFRON v. INT'L SOC. FOR KRISHNA CONSC.

No. 80-795.

452 U.S. 640 (1981)

HEFFRON, SECRETARY AND MANAGER OF THE MINNESOTA STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. BOARD OF MANAGERS, ET AL. v. INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KRISHNA. CONSCIOUSNESS, INC., ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 22, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kent G. Harbison, Special Assistant Attorney General of Minnesota, argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs were Warren Spannaus; Attorney General, and William P. Marshall, Special Assistant Attorney General.

Laurence H. Tribe argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief were Barry A. Fisher and David Grosz.*

Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed by J. Albert Woll, Marsha Berzon, and Laurence Gold for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations; and by Bruce J. Ennis, Jr., and Charles S. Sims for the American Civil Liberties Union et al.

Briefs of amici curiae were filed by John Jordan for the Gujarat Cultural Association, Inc., et al., and by Fletcher N. Baldwin, Jr., for the India Cultural Society of New Jersey et al.

JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court.

The question presented for review is whether a State, consistent with the First and Fourteenth Amendments, may require a religious organization desiring to distribute and sell religious literature and to solicit donations at a state fair to conduct those activities only at an assigned location within the fairgrounds even though application of the rule limits the religious practices of the organization.

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