Martin v. City of Struthers

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Martin v. Struthers
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 11, 1943 Decided May 3, 1943
Full case name	Martin v. City of Struthers, Ohio
Citations	319 U.S. 141 (more) 63 S. Ct. 862; 87 L. Ed. 1313; 1943 U.S. LEXIS 1188
Case history
Prior	Appeal from the Supreme Court of Ohio
Holding
A law prohibiting the distribution of handbills from door to door violated the First Amendment rights of a Jehovah's Witness.
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 opinions
Majority	Black, joined by Stone, Douglas, Murphy, Rutledge
Concurrence	Murphy
Dissent	Frankfurter
Dissent	Reed, joined by Roberts, Jackson

Martin v. Struthers, 319 U.S. 141 (1943), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a law prohibiting the distribution of handbills from door to door violated the First Amendment rights of a Jehovah's Witness, specifically their freedom of speech. The ruling was 5-4 and deemed trespassing laws a better fit for the town imposing the ordinance.