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  "url": "https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/297/233",
  "final_url": "https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/297/233",
  "title": "Grosjean v. American Press Co., Inc., 297 U.S. 233 (1936)",
  "publisher": "Grosjean v. American Press Co., Inc., 297 U.S. 233 (1936)",
  "published_on": "1936-02-10",
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    {
      "id": 893,
      "statement": "The Louisiana Legislature enacted the tax through Act No. 23 on July 12, 1934.",
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      "id": 894,
      "statement": "Justice George Sutherland's opinion held that the tax operated as a restraint in two ways, cutting revenue from advertising and tending to restrict circulation.",
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      "id": 895,
      "statement": "Sutherland found the tax's form itself suspicious because it was measured by the extent of a newspaper's circulation rather than by the volume of its advertising.",
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      "statement": "The Supreme Court noted that no one suggested newspaper owners were immune from ordinary forms of taxation, distinguishing this tax from a routine business tax.",
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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."
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