Beauharnais v. Illinois
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| Beauharnais v. Illinois | |||||||||||
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| Argued November 28, 1951 Decided April 28, 1952 |
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| The Court upheld an Illinois law making it illegal to publish or exhibit any writing or picture portraying the "depravity, criminality, unchasity, or lack of virtue of a class of citizens of any race, color, creed or religion." | |||||||||||
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| Chief Justice: Fred M. Vinson Associate Justices: Hugo Black, Stanley Forman Reed, Felix Frankfurter, William O. Douglas, Robert H. Jackson, Harold Hitz Burton, Tom C. Clark, Sherman Minton |
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| Majority by: Frankfurter Joined by: Vinson, Burton, Clark, Minton Dissent by: Black Joined by: Douglas Dissent by: Reed Joined by: Douglas Dissent by: Douglas Dissent by: Jackson |
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| U.S. Const. amends. I, XIV | |||||||||||
Beauharnais v. Illinois, 343 U.S. 250 (1952), was a case that came before the Supreme Court in 1952. The result was that an Illinois law making it illegal to publish or exhibit any writing or picture portraying the "depravity, criminality, unchasity, or lack of virtue of a class of citizens of any race, color, creed or religion" was upheld.
The leaflet that started it [1] (pdf).
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