Goldblatt v. Town of Hempstead

Goldblatt v. Hempstead
Goldblatt v. Hempstead
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 15–16, 1962; Decided May 14, 1962
Full case name	Goldblatt, et al. v. Town of Hempstead
Citations	369 U.S. 590 (more) 82 S. Ct. 987; 8 L. Ed. 2d 130
Case history
Prior	Town of Hempstead v. Goldblatt, 19 Misc. 2d 176, 189 N.Y.S.2d 577 (Sup. Ct. 1959); affirmed, 9 A.D.2d 941, 196 N.Y.S.2d 573 (1959); aff'd, 9 N.Y.2d 101, 172 N.E.2d 562 (1961); probable jurisdiction noted, 366 U.S. 942 (1961).
Court membership
	Chief Justice Earl Warren Associate Justices Hugo Black · Felix Frankfurter; William O. Douglas · Tom C. Clark; John M. Harlan II · William J. Brennan Jr.; Potter Stewart · Byron White
Case opinion
Majority	Clark, joined by unanimous
	Frankfurter, White took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
	U.S. Const. amend. XIV

Goldblatt v. Hempstead, 369 U.S. 590 (1962), was a United States Supreme Court case concerning whether a town ordinance regulating a use of a property was unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment, finding the law in question was constitutional as an exercise of the town's police powers.

Goldblatt v. Hempstead
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 15–16, 1962 Decided May 14, 1962
Full case name	Goldblatt, et al. v. Town of Hempstead
Citations	369 U.S. 590 (more) 82 S. Ct. 987; 8 L. Ed. 2d 130
Case history
Prior	Town of Hempstead v. Goldblatt, 19 Misc. 2d 176, 189 N.Y.S.2d 577 (Sup. Ct. 1959); affirmed, 9 A.D.2d 941, 196 N.Y.S.2d 573 (1959); aff'd, 9 N.Y.2d 101, 172 N.E.2d 562 (1961); probable jurisdiction noted, 366 U.S. 942 (1961).
Court membership
Chief Justice Earl Warren Associate Justices Hugo Black · Felix Frankfurter William O. Douglas · Tom C. Clark John M. Harlan II · William J. Brennan Jr. Potter Stewart · Byron White
Case opinion
Majority	Clark, joined by unanimous
Frankfurter, White took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. XIV