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HAMLING et al. v. UNITED STATES (1974)

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HAMLING et al. v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1973
Important Dates
Argued: April 15, 1974
Decided: June 24, 1974
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Warren Burger • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • Byron White
Dissenting
William Brennan • William Douglas • Thurgood Marshall • Potter Stewart

HAMLING et al. v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 24, 1974. The case was argued before the court on April 15, 1974.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California Southern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1970s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Burger Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: First Amendment - Obscenity, federal
  • Petitioner: Publisher, publishing company
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 418 U.S. 87
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: William Rehnquist

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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