Supreme Court· 1/18/1965

Cox v. Louisiana

Citations

379 U.S. 559
85 S. Ct. 476
13 L. Ed. 2d 487
1965 U.S. LEXIS 2328

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holding that it would offend due process to permit the state to sanction individuals from demonstrating in an area where police told them they could hold their demonstration
holding that a statute criminalizing demonstrations “in or near” a courthouse was not unconstitutionally vague
holding that statute prohibiting \picketing and parading\ near a courthouse did not infringe upon the constitutionally protected rights of free speech and free assembly
concluding that the state could not prosecute protestors for violating a statute prohibiting demonstrations near courthouse where a police official informed protestors they could picket there
holding that, under Raley, defendants could not be convicted for demonstrating too near a courthouse after they were told by the city’s highest police officials that they could demonstrate there
holding that due process barred conviction under a statute prohibiting demonstrations “near” a courthouse, when the defendants had relied on town officials’ “on-the-spot” interpretations of the statute

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Judges: Goldberg, Black, Clark, White, Hablan

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