Kolender v. Lawson

Kolender v. Lawson
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 8, 1982 Decided May 2, 1983
Full case name	Kolender, Chief of Police of San Diego, et al. v. Edward Lawson
Citations	461 U.S. 352 (more) 103 S. Ct. 1855; 75 L. Ed. 2d 903
Case history
Prior	658 F.2d 1362 (9th Cir. 1981)
Holding
The statute, as drafted and as construed by the state court, is unconstitutionally vague on its face within the meaning of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by failing to clarify what is contemplated by the requirement that a suspect provide a "credible and reliable" identification.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Rehnquist John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor
Case opinions
Majority	O'Connor, joined by Burger, Brennan, Marshall, Blackmun, Powell, Stevens
Concurrence	Brennan
Dissent	White, joined by Rehnquist
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. XIV

Kolender v. Lawson, 461 U.S. 352 (1983),^[1] is a United States Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of vague laws that allow police to demand that "loiterers" and "wanderers" provide "credible and reliable" identification.