City of Cincinnati v. Discovery Network, Inc.

Cincinnati v. Discovery Network, Inc.
Cincinnati v. Discovery Network, Inc.
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 9, 1992; Decided March 24, 1993
Full case name	City of Cincinnati v. Discovery Network
Citations	507 U.S. 410 (more) 113 S. Ct. 1505; 123 L. Ed. 2d 99; 1993 U.S. LEXIS 2401
Argument	Oral argument
Opinion announcement	Opinion announcement
Holding
	A ban by the city of Cincinnati on the distribution of commercial material via news racks violated the First Amendment.
Court membership
	Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices Byron White · Harry Blackmun; John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor; Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy; David Souter · Clarence Thomas
Case opinions
Majority	Stevens, joined by Blackmun, O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter
Concurrence	Blackmun
Dissent	Rehnquist, joined by White, Thomas
Laws applied
	U.S. Const. amend. I

Cincinnati v. Discovery Network, Inc., 507 U.S. 410 (1993), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that a ban by the city of Cincinnati on the distribution of commercial material via news racks violated the First Amendment.^[1]

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↑ City of Cincinnati v. Discovery Network, Inc., 507 U.S. 410 (1993) ("Cincinnati's categorical ban on the distribution, via newsrack, of 'commercial handbills' cannot be squared with the dictates of the First Amendment.")

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[1] City of Cincinnati v. Discovery Network, Inc., 507 U.S. 410 (1993) ("Cincinnati's categorical ban on the distribution, via newsrack, of 'commercial handbills' cannot be squared with the dictates of the First Amendment.")

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