page_title: Tucker v. Texas
section_title: Opinion of the Court
hierarchical_section_title: Tucker v. Texas / Opinion of the Court
caption_attribution_description: English: Supreme Court Justice Hugo La Fayette Black
context_page_description: Tucker v. Texas, 326 U.S. 517, was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that a state statute making it an offense to distribute literature in a federal government-owned town was an improper restriction on freedom of the press and religion.
context_section_description: Justice Hugo Black delivered the opinion of the court.  Black referred to Marsh v. Alabama, 326 U.S. 501 (1946) which was decided during the same term.  In that case, the court had held that a state trespassing statute could not be used to prevent the distribution of religious literature by requiring a permit in a company town.  Black noted that the only difference here was that the Marsh case involved a privately owned town and the current case involved a town owned by the federal government.  Black allowed that there might be a case where it might be proper for security reasons to prohibit outsiders from entering such a housing area, but that did not apply in this case.  The case was reversed and remanded.
caption: Justice Hugo Black, author of majority opinion
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