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RATNER et al. v. CALIFORNIA (1967)

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RATNER et al. v. CALIFORNIA
Term: 1966
Important Dates
Decided: June 12, 1967
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Abe Fortas • Potter Stewart • Byron White
Dissenting
William Brennan • Tom Clark • John Harlan II • Earl Warren

RATNER et al. v. CALIFORNIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 12, 1967.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California 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: Movie, play, pictorial representation, theatrical production, actor, or exhibitor or distributor of
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: California
  • Citation: 388 U.S. 442
  • 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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