Butler v. Michigan (352 U.S. 380)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided February 25, 1957 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 352 U.S. 380 · 77 S. Ct. 524
- Decided
- February 25, 1957
- Term
- October Term 1956
- Vote
- 9–0
- Majority author
- Justice Frankfurter
- Issue area
- First Amendment
- Disposition
- Reversed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Liberal
- Constitutional ruling
- State/territorial law held unconstitutional
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