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Amalgamated Food Employees Union Local 590 v. Logan Valley Plaza, Inc.
Argued March 14, 1968
Decided May 20, 1968
Full case nameAmalgamated Food Employees Union Local 590, et al. v. Logan Valley Plaza, Inc., et al.
Citations391 U.S. 308 (more)
88 S. Ct. 1601; 20 L. Ed. 2d 603; 1968 U.S. LEXIS 2996; 57 Lab. Cas. (CCH) P12,681; 45 Ohio Op. 2d 181; 68 L.R.R.M. 2209
Case history
PriorCertiorari to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Holding
For publicly accessible community spaces, a state cannot use trespass laws to prohibit the exercise of First Amendment rights usually allowed on public streets.
Court membership
Chief Justice
Earl Warren
Associate Justices
Hugo Black · William O. Douglas
John M. Harlan II · William J. Brennan Jr.
Potter Stewart · Byron White
Abe Fortas · Thurgood Marshall
Case opinions
MajorityMarshall, joined by Warren, Douglas, Brennan, Stewart, Fortas
ConcurrenceDouglas
DissentBlack
DissentHarlan
DissentWhite

Amalgamated Food Employees Union Local 590 v. Logan Valley Plaza, Inc., 391 U.S. 308 (1968), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that, for publicly accessible community spaces, a state cannot use trespass laws to prohibit the exercise of First Amendment rights usually allowed on public streets.

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