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RABE v. WASHINGTON (1972)

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RABE v. WASHINGTON
Term: 1971
Important Dates
Argued: February 29, 1972
Decided: March 20, 1972
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • William Douglas • Thurgood Marshall • Lewis Powell • Potter Stewart • Byron White
Concurring
Warren Burger • William Rehnquist

RABE v. WASHINGTON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 20, 1972. The case was argued before the court on February 29, 1972.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Washington State Trial 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, state (cf. comity: privacy): including the regulation of sexually explicit material under the 21st Amendment
  • Petitioner: Movie, play, pictorial representation, theatrical production, actor, or exhibitor or distributor of
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Washington
  • Citation: 405 U.S. 313
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • 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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