Robinson v. Florida

Robinson v. Florida
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 15, 1963 Decided June 22, 1964
Full case name	James Russell Robinson et al., v. Florida
Citations	378 U.S. 153 (more) 84 S. Ct. 1693; 12 L. Ed. 2d 771; 1964 U.S. LEXIS 821
Case history
Prior	Conviction affirmed, 144 So.2d 811 (Fla. 1962); probable jurisdiction noted, 378 U.S. 153 (1963).
Subsequent	167 So.2d 307 (Fla. 1964), vacated prior decision and remand to trial court.
Holding
The state convictions violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as the state, through regulations requiring separate facilities for each race in a restaurant, had become involved in bringing about segregation.
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	Black, joined by Warren, Brennan, White, Clark, Stewart, Goldberg
Concurrence	Douglas
Concurrence	Harlan
Laws applied
U.S. Const. Amend. XIV

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Robinson v. Florida

Robinson v. Florida, 378 U.S. 153 (1964), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States reversed the convictions of several white and African American persons who were refused service at a restaurant based upon a prior Court decision, holding that a Florida regulation requiring a restaurant that employed or served persons of both races to have separate lavatory rooms resulted in the state becoming entangled in racial discriminatory activity in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.^[1]