Kovacs v. Cooper 336 U.S. 77 (1949)

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KOVACS v. COOPER 336 U.S. 77 (1949)

After earlier suggesting that a ban on sound trucks would be invalid, the Supreme Court held that "loud and raucous" loudspeakers could be prohibited as a reasonable regulation of time, place, and manner of speech. The opinion by Justice stanley reed noted interests in residential tranquillity, and it is cited as a privacy decision. Justice felix frankfurter, concurring, delivered a major attack on the preferred freedom doctrine.

Martin Shapiro
(1986)

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