GORDON
v.
TEXAS

U.S. | 1958-01-13
No. 71
355 U.S. 369 Supreme Court of the United States (1958) Caution
Also reported at: 2 L. Ed. 2d 352 · 78 S. Ct. 363 · SCDB 1957-039 · 1958 U.S. LEXIS 1659
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Per_curiam
Per Curiam.

Per Curiam.

The judgment is affirmed. Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Carter v. Virginia, 321 U. S. 131.


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  • …dment in concurring in the judgment. 314 U. S., at 397. In Carter, Mr. Justice Black, Mr. Justice Frankfurter, and Mr. Justice Jackson wrote separate concurrences, relying upon the Twenty-first Amendment. 321 U. S., at 138, 139. Cf. Gordon v. Texas, 355 U. S. 369, upholding a similar state statute in a per curiam citing both the Twenty-first Amendment and Carter v. Virginia, supra. Prior to the Eighteenth Amendment, Congress passed laws giving the States a large degree of autonomy in regulating the importat…
  • …at the Amendment has, in respect to liquor, freed the States from all restrictions upon the police power to be found in other provisions of the Constitution. The question for decision requires no such generalization.” Id., at 64. In Gordon v. Texas, 355 U. S. 369, the Court in a brief per curiam affirmed a Texas conviction for illegal possession of 11 bottles of rum which had been imported without a permit and to which the required Texas tax stamps were not affixed. The state tax in that case had been held t…
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