Baggett v. Bullitt

Baggett v. Bullitt
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 24, 1964 Decided June 1, 1964
Full case name	Baggett, et al. v. Bullitt, et al.
Citations	377 U.S. 360 (more) 84 S. Ct. 1316; 12 L. Ed. 2d 377; 1964 U.S. LEXIS 1140
Case history
Prior	Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington
Holding
A State cannot require an employee to take an unduly vague oath containing a promise of future conduct at the risk of prosecution for perjury or loss of employment, particularly where the exercise of First Amendment freedoms may thereby be deterred.
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	White, joined by Warren, Black, Douglas, Brennan, Stewart, Goldberg
Dissent	Clark, joined by Harlan
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amends. I, XIV

Baggett v. Bullitt, 377 U.S. 360 (1964), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a state cannot require an employee to take an unduly vague oath containing a promise of future conduct at the risk of prosecution for perjury or loss of employment, particularly where the exercise of First Amendment freedoms may thereby be deterred.