Chandler v. Florida

Chandler v. Florida
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 12, 1980 Decided January 26, 1981
Full case name	Chandler v. Florida
Citations	449 U.S. 560 (more) 101 S.Ct. 802
Holding
The Constitution does not prohibit a state from experimenting with a program such as is authorized by Florida's Canon 3A (7).
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan, Jr. · Potter Stewart Byron White · Thurgood Marshall Harry Blackmun · Lewis F. Powell, Jr. William Rehnquist · John P. Stevens
Case opinions
Majority	Burger, joined by Brennan, Marshall, Blackmun, Powell, Rehnquist
Concurrence	Stewart
Concurrence	White
Stevens took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.

Chandler v. Florida, 449 U.S. 560 (1981), was a legal case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that a state could allow the broadcast and still photography coverage of criminal trials. While refraining from formally overruling Estes v. Texas, which in 1965 held that media coverage was “infringing the fundamental right to a fair trial guaranteed by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment,” it effectively did so.

See also

• List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 449
• Estes v. Texas, 381 U.S. 532 (1965)

Further reading

• Ares, Charles E. (1981). "Chandler v. Florida: Television, Criminal Trials, and Due Process". The Supreme Court Review (The Supreme Court Review, Vol. 1981) 1981: 157–192. JSTOR 3109543. 
• Jennings, James M., II (1982). "Is Chandler a Final Rewrite of Estes?". Journalism Quarterly 59 (1): 66–73. 
• Nesson, Charles R.; Koblenz, Andrew D. (1981). "The Image of Justice: Chandler v. Florida". Harvard Civil Rights—Civil Liberties Law Review 16 (2): 405–413.