Which case was a First Amendment case, Reynolds v. United States or Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc.?
Reynolds v. United States Reynolds v. United States, 98 U.S. (8 Otto.) 145 (1878), was a Supreme Court of the United States case that held that religious duty was not a defense to a criminal indictment. "Reynolds" was the first Supreme Court opinion to address the Impartial Jury and the Confrontation Clauses of the Sixth Amendment.
Marcus v. Search Warrant Marcus v. Search Warrant, 367 U.S. 717 (1961) , full title Marcus v. Search Warrant of Property at 104 East Tenth Street, Kansas City, Missouri, is an "in rem" case decided by the United States Supreme Court on the seizure of obscene materials. The Court unanimously overturned a Missouri Supreme Court decision upholding the forfeiture of hundreds of magazines confiscated from a Kansas City wholesaler. It held that both Missouri's procedures for the seizure of allegedly obscene material and the execution of the warrant itself violated the Fourth and Fourteenth amendments' prohibitions on search and seizure without due process. Those violations, in turn, threatened the rights protected by the First Amendment.