The registration prescribed therein is not a limitation to the right of assembly or association, which may be exercised with or without registration

These facts, it is worth noting, led the Texas Supreme Court to conclude that rational basis scrutiny was the appropriate standard of review, and that the law was ultimately constitutional.

—constitutional daim, thereby implicitly disregarding any legal distinction between a violation of the statute and a violation of the injunction.

Agreeing, the Supreme Court of Texas sustained the regulation as a valid exercise of the state' s police power, undertaken “ 'for the protection of the general welfare of the public, and particularly the laboring class,' with special reference to safeguarding laborers from imposture when approached by an alleged organizer

Thomas traveled to Bay Town, Texas, to address the oil workers there and specifically to challenge a 1943 Texas statute that required licensing of paid union solicitors

[BOOK] The Texas Supreme Court: A Narrative History, 1836–1986