SECRETARY OF STATE OF MARYLAND
v.
JOSEPH H. MUNSON CO., INC.
Supreme Court of United States.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued October 31, 1983
Decided June 26, 1984
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Diana G. Motz, Assistant Attorney General of Maryland, argued the cause for petitioner. With her on the briefs were Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, and James G. Klair and Robert A. Zarnoch, Assistant Attorneys General.
Yale L. Goldberg argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was Donald E. Sinrod.*
Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the American Civil Liberties Union et al. by Robert B. Hummel, Thomas J. McGrew, Charles S. Sims, and Arthur B. Spitzer; for Independent Sector et al. by Adam Yarmolinsky, Stephen T. Owen, and Michael B. Jennison; and for Box Office, Inc., by Barry A. Fisher, Robert C. Moest, and David Grosz.
Supreme Court of United States.
JUSTICE BLACKMUN delivered the opinion of the Court.
In Schaumburg v. Citizens for a Better Environment,444 U.S. 620 (1980), this Court, with one dissenting vote, concluded that a municipal ordinance prohibiting the solicitation of contributions by a charitable organization that did not use at least 75% of its receipts for "charitable purposes" was unconstitutionally overbroad in violation of the First and Fourteenth...
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