Case Categories: Trespassing and Sit-ins

• Adderly v. Florida (1966)

  In Adderly v. Florida (1966), the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision reasoned that blocking access to a jail, where there were security concerns, constituted...

• Bell v. Maryland (1964)

  The Supreme Court case Bell v. Maryland (1964) arose from the criminal-trespass convictions of civil rights demonstrators who in 1960 held a “sit-in” at a...

• Brown v. Louisiana (1966)

  In Brown v. Louisiana (1966), the Supreme Court ruled that a silent, peaceful sit-in demonstration protesting segregation in a public library was protected...

• Garner v. Louisiana (1961)

  In Garner v. Louisiana, the court ruled that a Louisiana breach of the peace law was too vague to be applied to the peaceful sit-ins used by civil rights...