Robinson v. Florida

Robinson v. Florida
Argued October 15, 1963
Decided June 22, 1964
Full case nameJames Russell Robinson et al., v. Florida
Citations378 U.S. 153 (more)
84 S. Ct. 1693; 12 L. Ed. 2d 771; 1964 U.S. LEXIS 821
Case history
PriorConviction affirmed, 144 So.2d 811 (Fla. 1962); probable jurisdiction noted, 378 U.S. 153 (1963).
Subsequent167 So.2d 307 (Fla. 1964), vacated prior decision and remand to trial court.
Holding
The state convictions violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as the state, through regulations requiring separate facilities for each race in a restaurant, had become involved in bringing about segregation.
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
MajorityBlack, joined by Warren, Brennan, White, Clark, Stewart, Goldberg
ConcurrenceDouglas
ConcurrenceHarlan
Laws applied
U.S. Const. Amend. XIV

Robinson v. Florida, 378 U.S. 153 (1964), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States reversed the convictions of several white and African American persons who were refused service at a restaurant based upon a prior Court decision, holding that a Florida regulation requiring a restaurant that employed or served persons of both races to have separate lavatory rooms resulted in the state becoming entangled in racial discriminatory activity in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.[1]

  1. ^ Robinson v. Florida, 378 U.S. 153 (1964). Public domain This article incorporates public domain material from this U.S government document.