Torcaso v. Watkins, Clerk (367 U.S. 488)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided June 19, 1961 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 367 U.S. 488 · 81 S. Ct. 1680
- Decided
- June 19, 1961
- Term
- October Term 1960
- Vote
- 9–0
- Majority author
- Justice Black
- 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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