Murdock v. Pennsylvania

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Murdock v. Pennsylvania
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 10–11, 1943 Decided May 3, 1943
Full case name	Murdock v. Pennsylvania
Citations	319 U.S. 105 (more) 63 S. Ct. 870; 87 L. Ed. 1292; 1943 U.S. LEXIS 711
Holding
A Pennsylvania ordinance imposing a license tax for those selling merchandise when such material is religious in nature violates the Free Exercise Clause.
Court membership
Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone Associate Justices Owen Roberts · Hugo Black Stanley F. Reed · Felix Frankfurter William O. Douglas · Frank Murphy Robert H. Jackson · Wiley B. Rutledge
Case opinions
Majority	Douglas, joined by Stone, Black, Murphy, Rutledge
Dissent	Reed, joined by Roberts, Frankfurter, Jackson
Dissent	Frankfurter, joined by Jackson
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. I

Murdock v. Pennsylvania, 319 U.S. 105 (1943), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that an ordinance requiring door-to-door salespersons ("solicitors") to purchase a license was an unconstitutional tax on religious exercise.