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
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 | low-income persons perceived as beneficiaries of public housing | 3-judge court, admission to the bar | 3-judge court, admission to the bar
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- 58 opinions
C. A. 8th Cir. Motion of respondent for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Certiorari denied.