Goldstein v. California

Goldstein v. California
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued December 13, 1972 Decided June 18, 1973
Full case name	Goldstein v. California
Docket no.	71-1192
Citations	412 U.S. 546 (more) 93 S. Ct. 2303; 37 L. Ed. 2d 163; 1973 U.S. LEXIS 15
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	Burger, joined by Stewart, White, Powell, Rehnquist
Dissent	Douglas, joined by Brennan, Blackmun
Dissent	Marshall, joined by Brennan, Blackmun

Goldstein v. California, 412 U.S. 546 (1973), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the high court ruled that California's state statutes criminalizing record piracy did not violate the Copyright Clause of the United States Constitution.^[1]