Walter Lee, Superintendent of Port Authority Police v. International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Inc., et al. (505 U.S. 830)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided June 26, 1992 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 505 U.S. 830 · 112 S. Ct. 2709
- Decided
- June 26, 1992
- Term
- October Term 1991
- Vote
- 5–4
- Issue area
- First Amendment
- Disposition
- Affirmed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party lost
- Ideological direction
- Liberal
- Constitutional ruling
- Local ordinance held unconstitutional
Opinion excerpt
*831 Per Curiam. For the reasons expressed in the opinions of Justice O’Connor, Justice Kennedy, and Justice Souter, see ante, p. 685 (O’Connor, J., concurring in No. 91-155 and concurring in judgment in No. 91-339), ante, p. 693 (Kennedy, J., concurring in judgments), and ante, p. 709 (Souter, J., concurring in judgment in No. 91-339 and dissenting in No. 91-155), the judgment of the Court of Appeals holding that the ban on distribution of literature in the Port Authority airport terminals is invalid under the First Amendment is Affirmed.
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