Poulos v. New Hampshire

Poulos v. New Hampshire
Argued February 3, 1953
Decided April 27, 1953
Full case namePoulos v. New Hampshire
Citations345 U.S. 395 (more)
73 S. Ct. 760; 97 L. Ed. 1105; 1953 U.S. LEXIS 2606; 30 A.L.R.2d 987
Case history
PriorState v. Poulos, 97 N.H. 352, 88 A.2d 860 (1952).
SubsequentRehearing denied, 345 U.S. 978 (1953).
Court membership
Chief Justice
Fred M. Vinson
Associate Justices
Hugo Black · Stanley F. Reed
Felix Frankfurter · William O. Douglas
Robert H. Jackson · Harold H. Burton
Tom C. Clark · Sherman Minton
Case opinions
MajorityReed, joined by Vinson, Jackson, Burton, Clark, Minton
ConcurrenceFrankfurter
DissentBlack
DissentDouglas, joined by Black
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amends. I, XIV

Poulos v. New Hampshire, 345 U.S. 395 (1953), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that a New Hampshire city ordinance regarding permission to hold a meeting in a public park did not violate the appellant's rights to Free Exercise of Religion even if he and his group were arbitrarily and unlawfully denied a license to hold a religious meeting in that public park.