Shelton v. Tucker

Shelton v. Tucker
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 7, 1960 Decided December 12, 1960
Full case name	B.T. Shelton et al. v. Everett Tucker Jr. et al.
Citations	364 U.S. 479 (more)
Holding
The Arkansas disclosure law violates the First Amendment.
Court membership
Chief Justice Earl Warren Associate Justices Hugo Black · Felix Frankfurter William O. Douglas · Tom C. Clark John M. Harlan II · William J. Brennan Jr. Charles E. Whittaker · Potter Stewart
Case opinions
Majority	Stewart, joined by Warren, Black, Douglas, Brennan
Dissent	Frankfurter, joined by Clark, Harlan, Whittaker
Dissent	Harlan, joined by Frankfurter, Clark, Whittaker
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. I

Shelton v. Tucker, 364 U.S. 479 (1960), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States. By a 5–4 vote, the Court struck down an Arkansas law imposing disclosure requirements on public schoolteachers, reasoning that they were unconstitutionally overbroad.