Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Swenson v. Hunter

404 U.S. 863

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1971-10-12
Topic
labor-and-employment

How later courts describe this case

  • holding that because curfew laws impinge on a minor’s freedom of movement, they are subject to intermediate scrutiny
  • “the right to move freely about one’s neighborhood or town ... is indeed ‘implicit in the concept of ordered liberty’ and ‘deeply rooted in the Nation’s history’ ”
  • “It would be meaningless to describe the right to travel between states as a fundamental precept of personal liberty and not to acknowledge a correlative constitutional right to travel within a state.”
  • low-income persons perceived as beneficiaries of public housing
  • 3-judge court, admission to the bar

Citator

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Authority status
pending
Cited by
101 opinions

C. A. 8th Cir. Motion of respondent for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Certiorari denied.