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Incidents, head of government Oscar K. Allen, outcome reversed
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ContinentNorth America
StagePressure 1
OutcomeReversed 1
LevelState or province 1
Head of governmentOscar K. Allen
United States: Louisiana taxes large newspapers' advertising revenue; the tax is struck down in Grosjean v. American Press Co.
Louisiana taxed the gross receipts that businesses earned from advertising in newspapers with circulations above 20,000 copies a week, a threshold that caught the state's largest papers. The Supreme Court of the United States ruled unanimo…
Funding and ownership pressure · Stage Pressure · Head of government Oscar K. Allen · Reversed
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