Edwards v. South Carolina
- Edwards v. South Carolina
SCOTUSCase
Litigants=Edwards v. South Carolina
ArgueDate=December 13
ArgueYear=1962
DecideDate=February 25
DecideYear=1963
FullName=Edwards et al. v. South Carolina
USVol=372
USPage=229
Citation=
Prior=Certiorari to the Supreme Court of South Carolina
Subsequent=239 S. C. 339, 123 S. E. 2d 247, reversed.
Holding=State governments must protect First Amendment rights through the Fourteenth Amendment.
SCOTUS=1962-1965
Majority=Stewart
JoinMajority=Warren, Black, Douglas, Harlan, Brennan, White, Goldberg
Dissent=Clark
LawsApplied=
"Edwards v. South Carolina", 372 U.S. 229 (1963)ref|citation, was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution forbade state government officials to force a crowd to disperse when they are otherwise legally marching in front of a state house.
ee also
* List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 372
External links
* [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=CASE&court=US&vol=372&page=229 372 U.S. 229] Full text of the opinion courtesy of Findlaw.com.
* [http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/faclibrary/case.aspx?case=Edwards_v_SC First Amendment Library entry for "Edwards v. South Carolina"]
* [http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/case/109/abstract Summary of case from OYEZ]
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