Edwards v. South Carolina

Edwards v. South Carolina
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued December 13, 1962 Decided February 25, 1963
Full case name	Edwards, et al. v. South Carolina
Citations	372 U.S. 229 (more) 83 S. Ct. 680; 9 L. Ed. 2d 697
Case history
Prior	239 S.C. 339, 123 S.E.2d 247 (1961), reversed.
Holding
State governments must protect First Amendment rights through the Fourteenth Amendment.
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 · Arthur Goldberg
Case opinions
Majority	Stewart, joined by Warren, Black, Douglas, Harlan, Brennan, White, Goldberg
Dissent	Clark
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. I, XIV

Edwards v. South Carolina, 372 U.S. 229 (1963), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court ruling that the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution forbade state government officials to force a crowd to disperse when they are otherwise legally marching in front of a state house.