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ROTH v. UNITED STATES (1957)

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ROTH v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1956
Important Dates
Argued: April 22, 1957
Decided: June 24, 1957
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-3
Majority
William Brennan • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • Felix Frankfurter • Charles Whittaker
Concurring
Earl Warren
Dissenting
Hugo Black • William Douglas • John Harlan II

ROTH v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 24, 1957. The case was argued before the court on April 22, 1957.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York Southern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1950s, 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, federal
  • Petitioner: Bookstore, newsstand, printer, bindery, purveyor or distributor of books or magazines
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 354 U.S. 476
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: William Brennan

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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