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Legal Citation: 326 U.S. 507 (1946)

Appellant
Grace Marsh

Appellee
State of Alabama

Appellant's Claim
That she had the freedom to distribute religious literature of the Jehovah's Witnesses on a "public" street in the company-owned town of Chickasaw, Alabama, despite the privately owned town's refusal to issue her a permit and the Alabama state law supporting property owners' right to ask individuals to leave their property.

Chief Lawyer for Appellant
Hayden C. Covington

Chief Lawyers for Appellee
William M. McQueen, Attorney General of Alabama, and John O. Harris, Assistant Attorney General of Alabama

Justices for the Court
Hugo Lafayette Black (writing for the Court), William O. Douglas, Felix Frankfurter, Robert H. Jackson, Frank Murphy, Owen Josephus Roberts, Wiley Blount Rutledge

Justices...