Greer v. Spock

Greer v. Spock
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November, 1975
Decided March 24, 1976
Full case nameThomas U. GREER, Commander, Fort Dix Military Reservation, et al., Petitioners, v. Benjamin SPOCK et al
Citations424 U.S. 828 (more)
ArgumentOral argument
Court membership
Chief Justice
Warren E. Burger
Associate Justices
William J. Brennan Jr. · Potter Stewart
Byron White · Thurgood Marshall
Harry Blackmun · Lewis F. Powell Jr.
William Rehnquist · John P. Stevens
Case opinions
MajorityStewart, Rehnquist, Blackmun, White
ConcurrenceBurger
ConcurrencePowell
DissentMarshall
DissentBrennan
Stevens took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.

Greer v. Spock, 424 U.S. 828 (1976), is a U.S. Supreme Court case in which the court upheld military regulations strictly forbidding partisan political activity on unrestricted areas of a military base (in this case, Fort Dix and Benjamin Spock's activity) against a First Amendment challenge.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Greer v. Spock, 424 U.S. 828 (1995)
  2. ^ The Supreme Court’s About-Face in Greer v. Spock. The Army Lawyer. Issue 3. 2020
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