Chicago Police Dept. v. Mosley

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Chicago Police Dept. v. Mosley
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 19, 1972 Decided June 26, 1972
Full case name	Police Department of the City of Chicago et al. v. Mosley.
Citations	408 U.S. 92 (more) 92 S. Ct. 2286; 33 L. Ed. 2d 212
Case history
Prior	432 F.2d 1256 (7th Cir. 1970); cert. granted, 404 U.S. 821 (1971).
Holding
A city ordinance prohibiting all picketing within 150 feet of a school, unless the school is undergoing a labor dispute, is unconstitutional under the First and Fourteenth Amendments.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William O. Douglas · William J. Brennan Jr. Potter Stewart · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Rehnquist
Case opinions
Majority	Marshall, joined by Douglas, Brennan, Stewart, White, Powell
Concurrence	Burger, Blackmun, joined by Rehnquist

Chicago Police Dept. v. Mosley, 408 U.S. 92 (1972), was a United States Supreme Court case.

Background[]

Earl Mosley had frequently picketed the Jones Commercial High School in Chicago with a sign that read: "Jones High School practices black discrimination. Jones High School has a black quota." After seven months of his peaceful protests against what he perceived to be discrimination against African American students, an ordinance was passed banning picket during school hours unless it involved a labor dispute.

Opinion of the court[]

In an opinion by Justice Marshall, the Court ruled that the Chicago's ordinance prohibiting non-labor pickets on school property violated the First Amendment's Freedom to Protest, as well as the Fourteenth Amendment of equal protection under the law.^[1]

This decision was influenced by the precedents of past Supreme Court decisions such as Cox v. Louisiana (1965).^[2]

References[]

External links[]

• Text of Chicago Police Dept. v. Mosley, 408 U.S. 92 (1971) is available from: Findlaw  Google Scholar  Justia  Library of Congress  Oyez (oral argument audio) 

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