Terminiello v. City of Chicago

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Terminiello v. City of Chicago
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 1, 1949 Decided May 16, 1949
Full case name	Terminiello v. City of Chicago
Citations	337 U.S. 1 (more) 69 S. Ct. 894; 93 L. Ed. 1131; 1949 U.S. LEXIS 2400
Case history
Prior	Conviction affirmed by Illinois Court of Appeals, 332 Ill. App. 17, 74 N.E.2d 45 (App. 1st Dist. 1947); affirmed by Supreme Court of Illinois, 400 Ill. 23, 79 N.E.2d 39 (1948); cert. granted, 335 U.S. 890 (1948).
Subsequent	Rehearing denied, 337 U.S. 934 (1949).
Holding
Chicago's "breach of peace" ordinance was unconstitutional under the First Amendment.
Court membership
Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson Associate Justices Hugo Black · Stanley F. Reed Felix Frankfurter · William O. Douglas Frank Murphy · Robert H. Jackson Wiley B. Rutledge · Harold H. Burton
Case opinions
Majority	Douglas, joined by Black, Reed, Murphy, Rutledge
Dissent	Vinson
Dissent	Frankfurter, joined by Jackson, Burton
Dissent	Jackson, joined by Burton
Laws applied
U.S. Const. Amends. I & XIV

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Terminiello v. City of Chicago

Terminiello v. City of Chicago, 337 U.S. 1 (1949), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that a "breach of peace" ordinance of the City of Chicago that banned speech that "stirs the public to anger, invites dispute, brings about a condition of unrest, or creates a disturbance" was unconstitutional under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.^[1]