| Chandler v. Florida | ||||||
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Supreme Court of the United States |
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| Argued November 12, 1980 Decided January 26, 1981 |
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| Full case name | Chandler v. Florida | |||||
| Citations | 449 U.S. 560 (more) 101 S.Ct. 802 |
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| The Constitution does not prohibit a state from experimenting with a program such as is authorized by Florida's Canon 3A (7). | ||||||
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| Majority | Burger, joined by Brennan, Marshall, Blackmun, Powell, Rehnquist | |||||
| Concurrence | Stewart | |||||
| Concurrence | White | |||||
| Stevens took no part in the consideration or decision of the case. | ||||||
Chandler v. Florida, 449 U.S. 560 (1981), was a legal case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that a state could allow the broadcast and still photography coverage of criminal trials. While refraining from formally overruling Estes v. Texas, which in 1965 held that media coverage was “infringing the fundamental right to a fair trial guaranteed by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment,” it effectively did so.