Broadrick v. Oklahoma

Broadrick v. Oklahoma
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued Monday March 26, 1973 Decided Monday June 25, 1973
Full case name	Broadrick v. Oklahoma
Citations	413 U.S. 601 (more)
Prior history	Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma
Holding
The Oklahoma statute is not overly broad; the State of Oklahoma has the power to regulate partisan political activities
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William O. Douglas · William J. Brennan, Jr. Potter Stewart · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell, Jr. · William Rehnquist
Case opinions
Majority	White, joined by Burger, Blackmum, Powell, Rehnquist
Dissent	Brennan, joined by Stewart, Marshall
Dissent	Douglas
Laws applied
First Amendment to the United States Constitution

Broadrick v. Oklahoma, 413 U.S. 601 (1973) is a United States Supreme Court decision upholding an Oklahoma statute which prohibited state employees from engaging in partisan political activities. Broadrick is often cited to enunciate the test for a facial overbreadth challenge, that "the overbreadth of a statute must not only be real, but substantial as well, judged in relation to the statute's plainly legitimate sweep."

External links

• Text of Broadrick v. Oklahoma, 413 U.S. 601 (1973) is available from:  Findlaw  Justia