Fowler v. Rhode Island

Case Date: 08/25/2024

Fowler v. Rhode Island, 345 U.S. 67 (1953),[1] was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that a municipal ordinance which was used to penalize a minister of Jehovah's Witnesses for preaching at a peaceful religious meeting in a public park, although other religious groups could conduct religious services there with impunity, violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments.