Speiser v. Randall

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Speiser v. Randall
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 8–9, 1958 Decided June 30, 1958
Full case name	Lawrence Speiser v. Randall, Assessor of Contra Costa County, California
Citations	357 U.S. 513 (more) 78 S. Ct. 1332; 2 L. Ed. 2d 1460; 1958 U.S. LEXIS 1803
Holding
Enforcement of the provision by procedures placing the burdens of proof and persuasion on the taxpayers and denying them freedom of speech, violated the procedural safeguards required by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Court membership
Chief Justice Earl Warren Associate Justices Hugo Black · Felix Frankfurter William O. Douglas · Harold H. Burton Tom C. Clark · John M. Harlan II William J. Brennan Jr. · Charles E. Whittaker
Case opinions
Majority	Brennan, joined by Black, Frankfurter, Douglas, Harlan, Whittaker
Concurrence	Black, joined by Douglas
Concurrence	Douglas, joined by Black
Concurrence	Burton (in judgment)
Dissent	Clark
Warren took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.

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Speiser v. Randall

Speiser v. Randall, 357 U.S. 513 (1958), was a U.S. Supreme Court case addressing the State of California's refusal to grant to ACLU lawyer Lawrence Speiser, a veteran of World War II, a tax exemption because that person refused to sign a loyalty oath as required by a California law enacted in 1954. The court reversed a lower court ruling that the loyalty oath provision did not violate the appellants' First Amendment rights.