Griffin v. Maryland

Griffin v. Maryland
Griffin v. Maryland
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 14 – October 15, 1963; Decided June 22, 1964
Full case name	William L. Griffin et al. v. Maryland
Citations	378 U.S. 130 (more) 84 S. Ct. 1770; 12 L. Ed. 2d 754; 1964 U.S. LEXIS 818
Case history
Prior	225 Md. 422, 171 A.2d 717, affirmed conviction
Subsequent	236 Md. 184, 202 A.2d 644 (1964), reversing conviction without new trial
Holding
	The convictions violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and the arrest by a park employee, who was also a deputy sheriff, was state action.
Court membership
	Chief Justice Earl Warren Associate Justices Hugo Black · William O. Douglas; Tom C. Clark · John M. Harlan II; William J. Brennan Jr. · Potter Stewart; Byron White · Arthur Goldberg
Case opinions
Majority	Warren, joined by Douglas, Clark, Brennan, Stewart, Goldberg,
Concurrence	Clark
Dissent	Harlan, joined by Black, White
Laws applied
	U.S. Const. amend. XIV

Griffin v. Maryland, 378 U.S. 130 (1964), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States reversed the convictions of five African Americans who were arrested during a protest of a privately owned amusement park by a park employee who was also a deputy sheriff. The Court found that the convictions violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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