Home › Cases › 1970-1979 › 1975 › Mckinney v. Alabama ›

Mckinney v. Alabama

Media Items
Oral Argument
Get Adobe Flash Player
Expanded View
Download MP3
Opinion Announcement
Get Adobe Flash Player
Expanded View
Download MP3
Case Basics
Docket No.: 
74-532
Petitioner: 
Mckinney
Respondent: 
Alabama
Heard By: 
Burger Court (1975)
Decided By: 
Burger Court (1975-1981)
Opinion: 
424 U.S. 669 (1976)
Argued: 
Monday, December 15, 1975
Decided: 
Tuesday, March 23, 1976
Issues: 
First Amendment, Obscenity, State

Cite this page
The Oyez Project, Mckinney v. Alabama , 424 U.S. 669 (1976)
available at: (http://oyez.org/cases/1970-1979/1975/1975_74_532)
(last visited Tuesday, November 24, 2009).
Facts of the Case: 

None

Question: 

None

Conclusion: 

None

Decisions

Decision: 8 votes for Mckinney, 0 vote(s) against
Legal provision: Amendment 1: Speech, Press, and Assembly

Sort by Ideology

Voted with the majority
Burger
Wrote a special concurrence
Brennan
Voted with the majority, joined Brennan's concurrence
Stewart
Voted with the majority
White
Voted with the majority, joined Brennan's concurrence
Marshall
Wrote a regular concurrence
Blackmun
Voted with the majority
Powell
Wrote the majority opinion
Rehnquist
Did not participate
Stevens

Full Opinion by Justice William H. Rehnquist