Printed syllabus of the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Village of Hoffman Estates et al v Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. 22pp, approx. 6 x 9 in. (stray mark at "T" in "Thurgood", otherwise clean pages).

Thurgood Marshall was the U.S. Supreme Court's first African American jurist, and he served as an associate justice on the nation's highest court from 1967-1991. The Hoffman Estates case concerned efforts by a Chicago suburb to impose licensing requirements on the sale of drug paraphernalia by a local record store, and the vagueness and overbreadth of doctrines as they applied to restrictions on commercial speech. Writing for the majority, Marshall concluded: "Many American communities have recently enacted laws regulating or prohibiting the sale of drug paraphernalia. Whether these laws are wise or effective is not, of course, the province of this Court....We hold only that such legislation is not facially overbroad or vague if it does not reach constitutionally protected conduct and is reasonably clear in its application...."