CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-PROHIBITION OF ADVERTISEMENT OF PRICES BY BARBERS - IMPROPER POLICE REGULATION - DENIAL OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Authors

Elbridge D. Phelps, University of Michigan Law SchoolFollow

Abstract

Defendant was convicted of violating an ordinance of the City of Long Beach. That ordinance related exclusively to the barber trade and made it a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment or both, to advertise prices of services in any publication, handbill, or notice whatsoever, provided, however, that prices might be displayed within a barber shop in such manner as not to be visible from the outside, and provided further that no advertising of prices should be allowed on the windows or on the outside of the shop, or on the adjacent sidewalk or street. Held, the ordinance was unconstitutional as a denial of equal privileges and immunities and equal protection of the law, and an impairment of right of property, of contract, and of freedom of speech and press. People v. Osborne, (Cal. App. 1936) 59 P. (2d) 1083.

Recommended Citation

Elbridge D. Phelps, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-PROHIBITION OF ADVERTISEMENT OF PRICES BY BARBERS - IMPROPER POLICE REGULATION - DENIAL OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH, 35 Mich. L. Rev. 488 (1937).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol35/iss3/11