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WALKER v. GEORGIA (1965)

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WALKER v. GEORGIA
Term: 1964
Important Dates
Decided: May 24, 1965
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
William Brennan • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Arthur Goldberg • Earl Warren
Dissenting
Hugo Black • John Harlan II • Potter Stewart • Byron White

WALKER v. GEORGIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 24, 1965.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Georgia 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: Civil Rights - sit-in demonstrations (protests against racial discrimination in places of public accommodation)
  • Petitioner: Person or organization protesting racial or ethnic segregation or discrimination
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Georgia
  • Citation: 381 U.S. 355
  • 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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