Douglas v. City of Jeannette

Douglas v. City of Jeannette
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 10–11, 1943 Decided May 3, 1943
Full case name	Douglas v. City of Jeannette
Citations	319 U.S. 157 (more) 63 S. Ct. 877; 87 L. Ed. 1324; 1943 U.S. LEXIS 712
Case history
Prior	39 F. Supp. 32 (W.D. Pa. 1941); 130 F.2d 652 (3d Cir. 1942)
Holding
The ordinance as applied is held to be constitutional.
Court membership
Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone Associate Justices Owen Roberts · Hugo Black Stanley F. Reed · Felix Frankfurter William O. Douglas · Frank Murphy Robert H. Jackson · Wiley B. Rutledge
Case opinions
Majority	Stone
Concurrence	Jackson

Douglas v. City of Jeannette, 319 U.S. 157 (1943), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held it does not restrain criminal prosecutions made in good faith unless there would be some "irreparable injury."^[1] This case is one of four cases collectively known as the "Jehovah's Witnesses Cases", because the Supreme Court handed down rulings on these four cases related to the Jehovah's Witnesses on the same day (May 3, 1943). Although the Supreme Court ruled against the Jehovah's Witnesses in this case, it ruled in favor of them in the other three cases and those represent landmark decisions in the area of First Amendment constitutional law.