Case Categories: Noise Regulations

• Grayned v. City of Rockford (1972)

  In Grayned v. City of Rockford, the Supreme Court ruled that a city’s anti-picketing ordinance was over broad, but their anti-noise ordinance was...

• Saia v. New York (1948)

  The Supreme Court in 1948 invalidated a sound truck ordinance that allowed the police chief to act as a censor on speech, ruling it violated the First Amendment...

• Ward v. Rock against Racism (1989)

  New York City's noise-control regulations for concerts in the Central Park bandshell led to a Supreme Court case involving Rock Against Racism. The court ruled...