Jones v. City of Opelika

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Jones v. City of Opelika
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 5, April 30, 1942 Decided June 8, 1942
Full case name	Jones v. City of Opelika, Bowden et al. v. City of Fort Smith, Ark. Jobin v. State of Arizona
Citations	316 U.S. 584 (more) 62 S. Ct. 1231; 86 L. Ed. 1691; 1942 U.S. LEXIS 447
Court membership
Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone Associate Justices Owen Roberts · Hugo Black Stanley F. Reed · Felix Frankfurter William O. Douglas · Frank Murphy James F. Byrnes · Robert H. Jackson
Case opinions
Majority	Reed, joined by Roberts, Frankfurter, Byrnes, Jackson
Dissent	Stone, joined by Murphy, Black, Douglas
Dissent	Murphy, joined by Stone, Black, Douglas
Dissent	Black, Douglas, Murphy
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. I

Jones v. City of Opelika, 316 U.S. 584 (1942), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that a statute prohibiting the sale of books without a license was constitutional because it covered not a religious ritual but only individuals who engaged in a commercial activity.^[1]