Whether a municipal excise tax on the business privilege of charging for the use of billboard space abridges the freedom of speech, or of the press

QUESTION PRESENTED Relying on the same First Amendment precedent from this Court, the highest courts of Ohio and Maryland reached conflicting conclusions about whether taxing the business privilege of charging for the use of billboard space abridges the freedom of speech, or of the press. The question presented, upon which this conflict exists, is: Whether a municipal excise tax on the business privilege of charging for the use of billboard space abridges the freedom of speech, or of the press.