Lehman v. Shaker Heights

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Lehman v. City of Shaker Heights
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 26–27, 1974 Decided June 25, 1974
Full case name	Lehman v. Shaker Heights
Citations	418 U.S. 298 (more) 94 S. Ct. 2714; 41 L. Ed. 2d 770
Case history
Prior	Lehman v. City of Shaker Heights, 34 Ohio St. 2d 143, 296 N.E.2d 683 (1973); cert. granted, 414 U.S. 1021 (1973)
Holding
Advertising space on a city transit system is not a public forum, and a city's decision to ban political advertising in this space does not violate the First Amendment.
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
Plurality	Blackmun, joined by Burger, White, Rehnquist
Concurrence	Douglas
Dissent	Brennan, joined by Stewart, Marshall, Powell
Laws applied
U.S. Const. Amend. I

Lehman v. City of Shaker Heights, 418 U.S. 298 (1974), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court upheld a city's ban on political advertising within its public transportation system. The Court ruled that ad space on public transit is not a "public forum", meaning that speech within this space receives lower First Amendment protections.^[1]