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WATTS v. UNITED STATES (1969)

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WATTS v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1968
Important Dates
Decided: April 21, 1969
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
5-4
Majority
Hugo Black • William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • Earl Warren
Concurring
William Douglas
Dissenting
Abe Fortas • John Harlan II • Potter Stewart • Byron White

WATTS v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 21, 1969.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the District Of Columbia U.S. District 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 - First Amendment, miscellaneous (cf. comity: First Amendment)
  • Petitioner: Protester, demonstrator, picketer or pamphleteer (non-employment related), or non-indigent loiterer
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 394 U.S. 705
  • 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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