Garner v. Board of Public Works

Garner v. Board of Public Works
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 25, 1951 Decided June 4, 1951
Full case name	Garner, et al. v. Board of Public Works of Los Angeles, et al.
Citations	341 U.S. 716 (more) 71 S. Ct. 909; 95 L. Ed. 1317; 1951 U.S. LEXIS 1731
Case history
Prior	From the District Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District
Holding
A municipal loyalty oath which required an oath and affidavit about one's beliefs and actions for the previous five years and which was enacted more than five years previous is not an ex post facto law nor a bill of attainder
Court membership
Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson Associate Justices Hugo Black · Stanley F. Reed Felix Frankfurter · William O. Douglas Robert H. Jackson · Harold H. Burton Tom C. Clark · Sherman Minton
Case opinions
Majority	Clark, joined by Vinson, Reed, Jackson, Minton
Concur/dissent	Frankfurter
Concur/dissent	Burton
Dissent	Black
Dissent	Douglas, joined by Black

Garner v. Board of Public Works, 341 U.S. 716 (1951), is a ruling by the United States Supreme Court which held that a municipal loyalty oath which required an oath and affidavit about one's beliefs and actions for the previous five years and which was enacted more than five years previous is not an ex post facto law nor a bill of attainder.