JONES v. OPELIKA

Whether a city ordinance which requires canvassers to obtain a permit and reveal identifying information before going door-to-door to spread their political or religious messages violates the First Amendment.

Whether the First Amendment prevents a state from imposing a sales tax on only selected segments of the media.

Whether a qualified First Amendment right of access to criminal proceedings applied to preliminary hearings as conducted in California

Whether a "use tax" on the cost of paper and ink products consumed in the production of periodic publications violates the guaranted of the freedom of the press in the First Amendment.

Whether the New York Times and the Washington Post could be enjoined from publishing excerpts from a classified Defense Department study of U.S. involvement in the Indochina War. More broadly, whether the First Amendment protects the publication of "classified information."

Whether a California law requiring a loyalty oath in order to gain a tax exemption violated due process of law.

Whether a municipal ban on the use of any sound system emitting "loud and raucous" noises on public streets violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

Whether a local sound amplification law that required a police permit violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Contrast Kovacs v. Cooper (1949) upholding a similar law.

Whether a state, consistently with the First and Fourteenth Amendments, can impose criminal punishment on a person who undertakes to distribute religious literature on the premises of a company-owned town contrary to the wishes of the town's management.

Does a Texas law requiring labor organizers to secure permission to solicit members violate the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment?

Whether an ordinance requiring agent selling books to pay license fee of $1 per day or $15 per year is an improper restriction on "freedom of religion" as applied to resident preacher who earned his living by sale of religious books.

Whether a compulsory flag-salute law for school children violates the 1st and 14th Amendments.

Whether a Pennsylvania ordinance imposing a tax on sale of religious materials violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.

Whether a local ordinance that prohibited any person from "distributing handbills, circulars or other advertisements to ring the door bell, sound the door knocker, or otherwise summon" a home dweller violated the First and Fourteenth Amendemnts.

Whether a Pennsylvania statue, which prohibits the solicitation of orders for merchandise without first procuring a license from city authorities and paying a license tax, violates the plaintiffs First Amendment rights as Jehovahs witnesses to solicit goods relating to their religion.

Does the New Hampshire statute violate Chaplinsky's First and Fourteenth Amendment rights?

Whether a state law prohibiting a parade or procession on a public street without a special license violates the First Amendment.

Whether the requirement in the participation of in the pledge of allegiance, which includes the word God, exacted from a child who refuses upon since religious grounds, infringes upon due process of law the liberty guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.

Did the solicitation statute or the "breach of the peace" ordinance violate the Cantwells' First & Fourteenth Amendment free speech and/or free exercise rights?

Whether a local ordinance that prohibited the distribution of literature of any kind, and in any way, without first obtaining written permission from the city manager violated the First Amendment.