| Robinson v. Florida | |
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| Argued October 15, 1963 Decided June 22, 1964 | |
| Full case name | James Russell Robinson et al., v. Florida |
| Citations | 378 U.S. 153 (more) 84 S. Ct. 1693; 12 L. Ed. 2d 771; 1964 U.S. LEXIS 821 |
| Case history | |
| Prior | Conviction affirmed, 144 So.2d 811 (Fla. 1962); probable jurisdiction noted, 378 U.S. 153 (1963). |
| Subsequent | 167 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 | |
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| Case opinions | |
| Majority | Black, joined by Warren, Brennan, White, Clark, Stewart, Goldberg |
| Concurrence | Douglas |
| Concurrence | Harlan |
| Laws applied | |
| U.S. Const. Amend. XIV | |
Wikisource has original text related to this article:
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]
- ^ Robinson v. Florida, 378 U.S. 153 (1964).
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