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Legal Citation: 424 U.S. 828 (1976)

Petitioner
Commander Greer, Fort Dix Military Reservation

Respondents
Benjamin Spock, M.D., Julius Hobson, Linda Jenness, Andrew Pulley, et al.

Petitioner's Claim
That the Court should overturn two lower courts' rulings, which had forbidden him to interfere with candidates of the People's Party and the Socialist Workers Party as they distributed literature and held political meetings in areas of Fort Dix that were open to the public.

Chief Lawyer for Petitioner
Robert H. Bork, U.S. Solicitor General

Chief Lawyer for Respondents
David Kairys

Justices for the Court
Harry A. Blackmun, Warren E. Burger, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., William H. Rehnquist, Potter Stewart (writing for the Court), Byron R. White

Justices Dissenting
William J. Brennan, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, (John Paul...