Landmark Communications, Inc. v. Virginia (435 U.S. 829)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided May 1, 1978 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 435 U.S. 829 · 98 S. Ct. 1535
- Decided
- May 1, 1978
- Term
- October Term 1977
- Vote
- 7–0
- Majority author
- Justice Burger
- Issue area
- First Amendment
- Disposition
- Reversed and remanded
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Liberal
- Constitutional ruling
- State/territorial law held unconstitutional
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