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Debs v. United States
Debs made anti-war speech protesting the U.S involvement in WW1. Debs was trying to prevent the drafting of soldiers. But Debs argued that it was free speech. Then the act and those certain types of speeches were outlawed and made illegal. -
Grosjean v. American Press Co.
The Grosjean case wanted to make the newspaper companies pay tax if their weekly sales were over 20,000 papers a week. This was taken up to the supreme court and made unconstitutional because it was deemed to limit the information that the public had the right to have. -
Roth v. United States
sending obscene material through the mail for promotional purposes was not allowed. The mail-order business of Los angels was convicted of sending mail with nude photos of women and were rightfully convicted. -
NAACP v. Button, 371 U.S. 415 (1963)
The supreme court protected the first amendment rights of a civil group so they could take legal action. The civil rights of NAACP were attacked in this case and what ended up happening was the law ended up making people believe that this was put in place to undermine the NAACP influence. -
Cox v. Louisiana, 379 U.S. 536 (1965)
This held to show that a state government cannot protest near the courthouse. The police did say they could protest across the street if they would like. then cox convinced everyone to cross the and protest in front of the courthouse. The jury then said it was ok to do so because there was no harm in doing this and the charges were dropped against cox. -
United States v. Thirty-seven Photographs
There was a court case which had very inappropriate material from the case at hand. The jury would have liked to use this material in case but wasn't allowed. When it went to court they believed that there was no problem with the evidence as it held value to the case thus allowing it to be used in the case. -
Chicago Police Dept. v. Mosley
the Mosley case is a different case throughout the U.S. most states have the law and follow it, which is that no picketing within 150 feet of a school, peaceful picketing or not. But some cities can have ordinances making it to where you cant do it one hour before and one hour after school as well. -
bethel school district no. 403 v. fraser (1986)
school officials decided to take a student who protested free speech to court. to then make the case that students aren't allowed to make vulgar speeches during school. -
Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition
This case struck down two provisions of free speech on the internet that violated the child pornography act of 1996. Ashcroft took this to court saying that it's only freedom of speech to say whatever he wants on the internet even if it entails children. Ashcroft took this to court and ended up being not getting allowed to extend the free speech amendment to include child pornography. -
Virginia v. Black
Virginia and black made it public to not discriminate against anyone's religion or having an intent on intimidating a specific group with the mindset to make fun of or hurt. Three cases were convicted of burning crosses and violating Virginia law.
