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FELTON et al. v. CITY OF PENSACOLA (1968)

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FELTON et al. v. CITY OF PENSACOLA
Term: 1967
Important Dates
Decided: March 11, 1968
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-1
Majority
Hugo Black • William Brennan • William Douglas • Abe Fortas • Thurgood Marshall • Potter Stewart • Byron White
Concurring
Earl Warren
Dissenting
John Harlan II

FELTON et al. v. CITY OF PENSACOLA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 11, 1968.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Florida State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1960s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: First Amendment - obscenity, state (cf. comity: privacy): including the regulation of sexually explicit material under the 21st Amendment
  • Petitioner: Magazine
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
  • Respondent state: Florida
  • Citation: 390 U.S. 340
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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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