Pennekamp v. Florida

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Pennekamp v. Florida
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 8, 1946 Decided June 3, 1946
Full case name	John D. Pennekamp and the Miami Herald Publishing Company v. Florida
Citations	328 U.S. 331 (more)
Case history
Prior	In Re: Pennekamp, 155 Fla. 589, 21 So. 2d 41 (Fla. 1945), Pennekamp, et al., v. State, 156 Fla. 227, 22 So. 2d 875 (Fla. 1945)
Court membership
Chief Justice vacant Associate Justices Hugo Black · Stanley F. Reed Felix Frankfurter · William O. Douglas Frank Murphy · Robert H. Jackson Wiley B. Rutledge · Harold H. Burton
Case opinions
Majority	Reed, joined by unanimous
Concurrence	Frankfurter
Concurrence	Murphy
Concurrence	Rutledge
Jackson took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.

Pennekamp v. Florida, 328 U.S. 331 (1946), was a Supreme Court case in which the court held that a Florida circuit court which held the Miami Herald in contempt of court for publishing a scathing publication of that court was a violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendment. The unanimous court reversed the judgement of the Supreme Court of Florida which affirmed the contempt of court charge.