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Legal Citation: 307 U.S. 496 (1939)

Petitioner
Frank Hague

Respondent
Committee for Industrial Organization

Petitioner's Claim
That city officials' use of ordinances requiring permits for public meetings and public distribution of literature intentionally and unconstitutionally interfered with union activities.

Chief Lawyers for Petitioner
Charles Hershenstein, Edward J. O'Mara, James A. Hamill

Chief Lawyers for Respondent
Morris L. Earnst, Spaulding Frazer

Justices for the Court
Hugo Lafayette Black, Charles Evans Hughes, Stanley Forman Reed, Owen Josephus Roberts (writing for the Court), Harlan Fiske Stone

Justices Dissenting
Pierce Butler, James Clark McReynolds (Felix Frankfurter and William O. Douglas did not participate)

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
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