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  "slug": "oscar-k-allen",
  "name": "Oscar K. Allen",
  "office": null,
  "role": "Governor of Louisiana",
  "country": "US",
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  "incident_count": 1,
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      "slug": "1934-us-louisiana-newspaper-tax-grosjean",
      "title": "United States: Louisiana taxes large newspapers' advertising revenue; the tax is struck down in Grosjean v. American Press Co.",
      "occurred_on": "1934-07-12",
      "occurred_on_precision": "day",
      "country": "US",
      "country_name": "United States",
      "continent": "north-america",
      "jurisdiction": "US-LA",
      "level": "state_or_province",
      "tactic_primary": "funding_and_ownership_pressure",
      "tactics": [
        "funding_and_ownership_pressure"
      ],
      "leader_slug": "oscar-k-allen",
      "leader_name": "Oscar K. Allen",
      "issue_of_the_day": "The tax followed Senator Huey Long's rise to dominate Louisiana politics after his election to the United States Senate in 1932, and applied to the state's largest newspapers.",
      "outcome": "reversed",
      "outcome_on": "1936-02-10",
      "outcome_note": "The Supreme Court's ruling voided the tax and left Louisiana's large newspapers free of it.",
      "stage": "pressure",
      "ladder_note": null,
      "rsf": {
        "index": "RSF World Press Freedom Index",
        "year": 2026,
        "rank": 64,
        "of": 180,
        "label": "RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180",
        "source_url": "https://rsf.org/en/index"
      },
      "era": "1930s",
      "granularity": "anchor",
      "status": "historical",
      "case_count": 0,
      "summary": "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 unanimously in 1936 that the tax operated as a restraint on advertising revenue and circulation, and struck it down.",
      "url": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/1934-us-louisiana-newspaper-tax-grosjean"
    }
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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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