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STROTHER v. THOMPSON

No. 23033.

372 F.2d 654 (1967)

Garland STROTHER and Ernestine Holt for her minor daughter, Jimmye Blalock, Appellants, v. Allen C. THOMPSON et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

February 14, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony G. Amsterdam, Philadelphia, Pa., Alvin J. Bronstein, R. Jess Brown, John H. Doyle, III, Jackson, Miss., Michael J. Silverberg, New York City, John O. Honnold, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa., Jack Greenberg, Melvyn Zarr, New York City, for appellants.

Thomas H. Watkins, E. W. Stennett, J. A. Travis, Jr., Elizabeth W. Grayson, Jackson, Miss., for appellees.

Before BROWN and COLEMAN, Circuit Judges, and DAWKINS, District Judge.

COLEMAN, Circuit Judge:

The appeal in this case squarely raises a single issue: Is an Ordinance of the City of Jackson, Mississippi,1 enacted June 25, 1940, requiring the issuance of a permit for the distribution of handbills and like objects, void on its face as in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution?

On June 13, 1965, without first obtaining...

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