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  "value": "Court found no dispute that newspapers could face ordinary taxation",
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  "evidence_quote": "the owners of newspapers are immune from any of the ordinary forms of taxation for support of the government",
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    "url": "https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/297/233",
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    "title": "Grosjean v. American Press Co., Inc., 297 U.S. 233 (1936)",
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