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Abrams v. United States , 250 U.S. 616 (1919), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States upholding the criminal arrests of several defendants under the Sedition Act of 1918 , which was an amendment to the Espionage Act of 1917 .
Schenck v. United States: 249 U.S. 47 (1919) freedom of speech, “clear and present danger”, “shouting fire in a crowded theater” Debs v. United States: 249 U.S. 211 (1919) sedition Abrams v. United States: 250 U.S. 616 (1919) validity of criminalizing criticism of the government Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States: 251 U.S. 385 (1920)
However, the more precise metaphor of a marketplace of ideas comes from the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of the United States. The first reference to the "free trade in ideas" within "the competition of the market" appears in 1919 within US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s dissent in Abrams v. United States.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (March 8, 1841 – March 6, 1935) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932. [A] Holmes is one of the most widely cited and influential Supreme Court justices in American history, noted for his long tenure on the Court and for his pithy opinions—particularly those on civil liberties and American ...
The family of an American killed when a Malaysian Airlines plane was shot down over Ukraine in 2014 can sue Russia's largest bank for allegedly providing money transfers to a group blamed for ...
Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during World War I.A unanimous Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., concluded that Charles Schenck and other defendants, who distributed flyers to draft-age men urging resistance to induction, could be convicted of an ...
Ben Rohrbach: USA vs. World. It was the only idea in San Francisco that jazzed the players. “I would love to,” said San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama, one of the few players who tried ...
Later in 1919, in Abrams v. United States, the Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a man who distributed circulars in opposition to American intervention in Russia following the Russian Revolution. The concept of bad tendency was used to justify speech restriction. The defendant was deported.