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UNITED STATES v. REIDEL (1971)

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UNITED STATES v. REIDEL
Term: 1970
Important Dates
Argued: January 20, 1971
Decided: May 3, 1971
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-2
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Warren Burger • Potter Stewart • Byron White
Concurring
John Harlan II • Thurgood Marshall
Dissenting
Hugo Black • William Douglas

UNITED STATES v. REIDEL is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 3, 1971. The case was argued before the court on January 20, 1971.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California Central 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: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Bookstore, newsstand, printer, bindery, purveyor or distributor of books or magazines
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 402 U.S. 351
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Byron White

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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