LOVELL v. CITY OF GRIFFIN (1938)

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LOVELL v. CITY OF GRIFFIN
Term: 1937
Important Dates
Argued: February 4, 1938
Decided: March 28, 1938
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
Hugo Black • Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Charles Evans Hughes • James Clark McReynolds • Stanley Reed • Owen Josephus Roberts • Harlan Fiske Stone

LOVELL v. CITY OF GRIFFIN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 28, 1938. The case was argued before the court on February 4, 1938.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Georgia State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1930s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Hughes Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: First Amendment - Commercial speech, excluding attorneys
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
  • Respondent state: Georgia
  • Citation: 303 U.S. 444
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Charles Evans Hughes
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Charles Evans Hughes

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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