Danskin v. San Diego Unified Sch. Dist 28 Cal.2d 536 (Cal. 1946)
[the validity of a school board rule requiring persons seeking use of a school auditorium for meetings to take an oath renouncing the overthrow of […]
Cramer v. United States 325 U.S. 1 (1945)
(The Supreme Court reviewing the conviction of a German-born naturalized citizen for treason)
Hartzel v. United States 322 U.S. 680 (1944)
[Evidence in this case held insufficient to sustain a conviction of violation of § 3 of the Espionage Act of 1917, upon an indictment charging […]
Schneiderman v. United States 320 U.S. 118, (1943)
[the majority over vigorous dissent held the evidence insufficient to show that in 1927 the Communist party was advocating the overthrow of the government by […]
Gorin v. United States 312 U.S. 19 (1941)
[interpreting the Espionage Act]
Stromberg v. California 283 U.S. 359 (1931)
[Holding state statute punishing the use of any symbol ” ‘of opposition to organized government’ ” to be impermissibly vague.]
Commonwealth v. Widovich, 295 Pa. 311 (1929)
[Defendants were convicted of sedition because they preached overthrow of the government. Free speech was not an absolute and unlimited right and states could enact […]
Gitlow v. New York 268 U.S. 652 (1925)
[under the New York statute defining criminal anarchy, the defendant was found to be responsible for a “manifesto” advocating the overthrow of the government by […]
Berger v. United States 255 U.S. 22 (1921)
[Finding bias in the extreme situation where judge made significant anti-German statements and sentenced defendants to twenty years imprisonment in an espionage case against German […]
O’Connell v. United States 253 U.S. 142 (1920)
[constitutionality of the Espionage Acts]