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COMMUNITY FOR CREATIVE NON-VIOLENCE et al. v. REID (1989)

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COMMUNITY FOR CREATIVE NON-VIOLENCE et al. v. REID
Term: 1988
Important Dates
Argued: March 29, 1989
Decided: June 5, 1989
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Anthony Kennedy • Thurgood Marshall • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • John Paul Stevens • Byron White

COMMUNITY FOR CREATIVE NON-VIOLENCE et al. v. REID is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 5, 1989. The case was argued before the court on March 29, 1989.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the District Of Columbia U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: copyright
  • Petitioner: Public interest organization
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Author, copyright holder
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 490 U.S. 730
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Thurgood Marshall

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 liberal.

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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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