Skip to main content

Adderley v. Florida









Adderley v. Florida


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jump to navigation
Jump to search


United States Supreme Court case
































Adderley v. Florida

Seal of the United States Supreme Court.svg


Supreme Court of the United States

Argued October 18, 1966
Decided November 14, 1966
Full case name Adderley, et al. v. Florida
Citations 385 U.S. 39 (more)
87 S. Ct. 242; 17 L. Ed. 2d 149

Prior history
Adderley v. State, 175 So. 2d 249 (Fla. 1st DCA 1965)
Holding
Because a jail facility is not a public forum and a state may regulate the use of its property, the First Amendment rights of the protesters were not violated.
Court membership

Chief Justice


Earl Warren

Associate Justices


Hugo Black · William O. Douglas
Tom C. Clark · John M. Harlan II
William J. Brennan Jr. · Potter Stewart
Byron White · Abe Fortas

Case opinions
Majority Black, joined by Clark, Harlan, Stewart, White
Dissent Douglas, joined by Warren, Brennan, Fortas
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. I

Adderley v. Florida, 385 U.S. 39 (1966), was a United States Supreme Court case regarding whether arrests for protesting in front of a jail were constitutional.




Contents






  • 1 Background information


  • 2 Decision


    • 2.1 Dissenting opinion




  • 3 See also


  • 4 References


  • 5 External links





Background information[edit]


In 1966, a group of students from Florida A&M University demonstrated against racial segregation, and were subsequently arrested. The day after, around 200 FAMU students gathered in front of the Leon County jail to protest their arrest.[1]


Petitioners, 32 students, were members of a group of about 200 who on a nonpublic jail driveway, which they blocked, and on adjacent county jail premises had, by singing, clapping, and dancing, demonstrated against their schoolmates' arrest and perhaps against segregation in the jail and elsewhere. The sheriff, the jail's custodian, advised them that they were trespassing on county property and would have to leave or be arrested. The 107 demonstrators refusing to depart were thereafter arrested and convicted under a Florida trespass statute for "trespass with a malicious and mischievous intent." Petitioners contend that their convictions, affirmed by the Florida Circuit Court and the District Court of Appeal, deprived them of their "rights of free speech, assembly, petition, due process of law and equal protection of the laws" under the Fourteenth Amendment.



Decision[edit]


The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the trespassing conviction in a 5–4 decision. The majority opinion, authored by Justice Black, argued that county jails were not public places and so it did not infringe on their right to assembly. The decision argued that states may protect their property and withhold its use from demonstrators for nondiscriminatory reasons such as protection from damage.[2][3][4]



Dissenting opinion[edit]


Justice Douglas authored a dissenting opinion in which Chief Justice Warren and Justices Brennan and Fortas concurred. Douglas argued that the protesters did not engage in or threaten violence or block the entrance of the jail. Public officials should not, according to this vision of the First Amendment, be given discretion to decide which public places can be used for the expression of ideas.[5]



See also[edit]



  • List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 385

  • List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Warren Court


  • Free speech zone

    • Brown v. Louisiana

    • Cox v. Louisiana

    • Edwards v. South Carolina





References[edit]





  1. ^ "Adderley v. Florida - Further Readings". Archived from the original on 17 May 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-14..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ Raymond, Walter John (1992). Dictionary of Politics: Selected American and Foreign Political and Legal Terms. Lawrenceville, Va.: Brunswick Pub. Corp. p. 672. ISBN 1-55618-008-X.


  3. ^ Graham, Barbara Luck; Davis, Abraham L. (1995). The Supreme Court, race, and civil rights. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. pp. 147–148. ISBN 0-8039-7220-2.


  4. ^ Adderley v. Florida Oyez Project


  5. ^ 385 U.S. at 49–57




External links[edit]



  • Text of Adderley v. Florida, 385 U.S. 39 (1966) is available from:  Justia  Library of Congress  Oyez (oral argument audio) 

  • Case brief: Quimbee











Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Adderley_v._Florida&oldid=861037742"





Navigation menu

























(window.RLQ=window.RLQ||).push(function(){mw.config.set({"wgPageParseReport":{"limitreport":{"cputime":"0.536","walltime":"0.615","ppvisitednodes":{"value":6682,"limit":1000000},"ppgeneratednodes":{"value":0,"limit":1500000},"postexpandincludesize":{"value":147546,"limit":2097152},"templateargumentsize":{"value":19653,"limit":2097152},"expansiondepth":{"value":17,"limit":40},"expensivefunctioncount":{"value":3,"limit":500},"unstrip-depth":{"value":1,"limit":20},"unstrip-size":{"value":9259,"limit":5000000},"entityaccesscount":{"value":0,"limit":400},"timingprofile":["100.00% 453.169 1 -total"," 48.65% 220.447 1 Template:Infobox_SCOTUS_case"," 39.03% 176.886 1 Template:Infobox"," 28.86% 130.766 1 Template:If_either"," 28.16% 127.627 1 Template:Infobox_SCOTUS_case/courts"," 27.88% 126.342 1 Template:Reflist"," 20.20% 91.525 1 Template:Cite_web"," 18.09% 81.984 222 Template:If_between"," 10.92% 49.496 1 Template:US1stAmendment"," 9.77% 44.252 1 Template:Navbox_with_collapsible_groups"]},"scribunto":{"limitreport-timeusage":{"value":"0.159","limit":"10.000"},"limitreport-memusage":{"value":3103814,"limit":52428800}},"cachereport":{"origin":"mw1246","timestamp":"20181216092900","ttl":3600,"transientcontent":true}}});});{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","name":"Adderley v. Florida","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adderley_v._Florida","sameAs":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4681051","mainEntity":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4681051","author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Contributors to Wikimedia projects"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://www.wikimedia.org/static/images/wmf-hor-googpub.png"}},"datePublished":"2008-05-13T22:52:30Z","dateModified":"2018-09-24T19:07:28Z"}(window.RLQ=window.RLQ||).push(function(){mw.config.set({"wgBackendResponseTime":739,"wgHostname":"mw1246"});});

Popular posts from this blog

Florida Star v. B. J. F.

Danny Elfman

Lugert, Oklahoma