Communist Party of Indiana v. Whitcomb

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Communist Party of Indiana v. Whitcomb
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 16, 1973 Decided January 9, 1974
Full case name	Communist Party of Indiana v. Whitcomb
Citations	414 U.S. 441 (more) 94 S. Ct. 656; 38 L. Ed. 2d 635
Holding
States may not prohibit political parties from being on the ballot, if the party merely advocates violent overthrow of government as an abstract principle.
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	Brennan, joined by Douglas, Stewart, White, Marshall
Concurrence	Powell, joined by Burger, Blackmun, Rehnquist
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amends. I, XIV

Communist Party of Indiana v. Whitcomb, 414 U.S. 441 (1974), was a United States Supreme Court case based on the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that invalidated Indiana's loyalty oath requirement.