| Litigants: | Buck v. Gallagher |
| Arguedate: | January 10 |
| Argueyear: | 1939 |
| Decidedate: | April 17 |
| Decideyear: | 1939 |
| Fullname: | Buck v. Gallagher |
| Usvol: | 307 |
| Uspage: | 95 |
| Parallelcitations: | 59 S. Ct. 740; 83 L. Ed. 1128 |
| Holding: | 1) ASCAP members have a common and undivided interest in the right to license in association through the Society free of the state statute. 2) The lower court should have allowed ASCAP members the opportunity to price the cost of complying with the statute and the value of the copyrights affected by it. |
| Majority: | Reed |
| Dissent: | Black |
Buck v. Gallagher, 307 U.S. 95 (1939), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court had two main holdings. First, ASCAP members have a common and undivided interest in the right to license in association through the Society free of the state statute. Second, the lower court should have allowed ASCAP members the opportunity to price the cost of complying with the statute and the value of the copyrights affected by it.