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First Amendment Library:
Cletus B. Hanley

SMITH, JUDGE, et al. v. DAILY MAIL PUBLISHING CO. et al., 443 U.S. 97 (1979)

We granted certiorari to consider whether a West Virginia statute violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution by making it a crime for a newspaper to publish, without the written approval of the juvenile court, the name of any youth charged as a juvenile offender.

First Amendment Library:Cletus B. Hanley

SMITH, JUDGE, et al. v. DAILY MAIL PUBLISHING CO. et al., 443 U.S. 97 (1979)

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