ROBINSON v. FLORIDA

No. 60.

378 U.S. 153 (1964)

ROBINSON ET AL. v. FLORIDA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 22, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfred I. Hopkins and Jack Greenberg argued the cause for appellants. With Mr. Hopkins on the briefs were Tobias Simon and Howard W. Dixon.

George R. Georgieff, Assistant Attorney General of Florida, argued the cause for appellee. With him on the briefs were Richard W. Ervin, former Attorney General of Florida, and James W. Kynes, Attorney General of Florida.

Ralph S. Spritzer, by special leave of Court, argued the cause for the United States, as amicus curiae, urging reversal. With him on the briefs were Solicitor General Cox, Assistant Attorney General Marshall, Louis F. Claiborne, Harold H. Greene, Howard A. Glickstein and David Rubin.


MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

A criminal information filed in a Florida state court charged that these eighteen appellants had violated § 509.141 of the Florida Statutes by remaining in a restaurant after the manager had requested them to leave.1 The material facts are not in dispute and show: Shell's City Restaurant, which is one of nineteen departments in Shell's...

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