Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Sapia v. Charter Marketing Co.
Sapia v. Charter Mktg. Co., 496 U.S. 938 (1990)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1990-06-18
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- “a law is not vague simply because it requires conformity to an imprecise normative standard”
- statute must be “sufficiently explicit to inform those who are subject to it what conduct on their part will render them liable to its penalties.”
- tests for vagueness based on fourteenth amendment due process or fairness concerns
- upholding prohibition against making "unreasonable noise"
Citator
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C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied.