Garner v. Louisiana

Garner v. Louisiana
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 18–19, 1961 Decided December 11, 1961
Full case name	John Burrell Garner, et al. v. State of Louisiana, Mary Briscoe, et al.
Citations	368 U.S. 157 (more) 82 S. Ct. 248; 7 L. Ed. 2d 207; 1961 U.S. LEXIS 28
Case history
Prior	Certiorari to the Supreme Court of Louisiana, 365 U.S. 840 (1961).
Holding
The convictions were so totally devoid of evidentiary support as to violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Court membership
Chief Justice Earl Warren Associate Justices Hugo Black · Felix Frankfurter William O. Douglas · Tom C. Clark John M. Harlan II · William J. Brennan Jr. Charles E. Whittaker · Potter Stewart
Case opinions
Majority	Warren, joined by unanimous
Concurrence	Frankfurter
Concurrence	Douglas
Concurrence	Harlan
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amends. I, XIV

Garner v. Louisiana, 368 U.S. 157 (1961), was a landmark case argued by Thurgood Marshall before the US Supreme Court. On December 11, 1961, the court unanimously ruled that Louisiana could not convict peaceful sit-in protesters who refused to leave dining establishments under the state's "disturbing the peace" laws.^[1][2]