Torcaso v. Watkins

Torcaso v. Watkins
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 24, 1961 Decided June 19, 1961
Full case name	Torcaso v. Watkins, Clerk
Citations	367 U.S. 488 (more) 81 S.Ct. 1680, 6 L. Ed. 2d 982
Argument	Oral argument
Case history
Prior	Judgment for respondent, Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Maryland; Judgment affirmed, Court of Appeals of Maryland, 223 Md. 49, 162 A. 2d 438 (1960)
Subsequent	Reversed and remanded
Holding
State governments cannot require a religious test for public office.
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	Black, joined by Warren, Douglas, Clark, Brennan, Whittaker, Stewart
Concurrence	Frankfurter (in the result, no opinion)
Concurrence	Harlan (in the result, no opinion)
Laws applied
U.S. Constitution Amendments I, XIV

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Torcaso v. Watkins

Torcaso v. Watkins, 367 U.S. 488 (1961), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court reaffirmed that the United States Constitution prohibits states and the federal government from requiring any kind of religious test for public office, in this specific case as a notary public.