COLTEN v. KENTUCKY (1972)

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COLTEN v. KENTUCKY
Term: 1971
Important Dates
Argued: April 17, 1972
Decided: June 12, 1972
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-2
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Warren Burger • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • Potter Stewart • Byron White
Dissenting
William Douglas • Thurgood Marshall

COLTEN v. KENTUCKY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 12, 1972. The case was argued before the court on April 17, 1972.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Kentucky State Trial Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: First Amendment - protest demonstrations (other than as pertains to sit-in demonstrations): demonstrations and other forms of protest based on First Amendment guarantees
  • Petitioner: Protester, demonstrator, picketer or pamphleteer (non-employment related), or non-indigent loiterer
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Kentucky
  • Citation: 407 U.S. 104
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Byron White

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as conservative.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024
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