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Legal Citation: 348 U.S. 483 (1955)

Appellant
Mac Q. Williamson, Attorney General of Oklahoma

Appellee
Lee Optical of Oklahoma

Appellant's Claim
That an Oklahoma law, which prohibited persons other than licensed optometrists and ophthalmologists from fitting lenses for eyeglasses, did not constitute a violation of the Due Process Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

Chief Lawyer for Appellant
James C. Harkin, Assistant Attorney General of Oklahoma

Chief Lawyer for Appellee
Dick H. Woods

Justices for the Court
Hugo Lafayette Black, Harold Burton, Tom C. Clark, William O. Douglas (writing for the Court), Felix Frankfurter, Sherman Minton, Stanley Forman Reed, Earl Warren

Justices Dissenting
None (John Marshall Harlan II did not participate)

Place
Washington, D.C.