Sedition and
imminent danger |
- Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
- Schenck v. United States (1919)
- Abrams v. United States (1919)
- Masses Publishing Co. v. Patten (S.D.N.Y. 1917)
- Gitlow v. New York (1925)
- Whitney v. California (1927)
- Dennis v. United States (1951)
- Yates v. United States (1957)
- Bond v. Floyd (1966)
- Keyishian v. Board of Regents (1967)
- Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969)
- Communist Party of Indiana v. Whitcomb (1974)
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False speech |
- United States v. Alvarez (2012)
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Fighting words and
the heckler's veto |
- Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940)
- Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942)
- Terminiello v. Chicago (1949)
- Feiner v. New York (1951)
- Gregory v. Chicago (1969)
- National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie (1977)
- R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul (1992)
- Snyder v. Phelps (2011)
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Freedom of assembly
and public forums |
- Hague v. CIO (1939)
- Schneider v. New Jersey (1939)
- Martin v. Struthers (1943)
- Niemotko v. Maryland (1951)
- Cox v. Louisiana (1965)
- Brown v. Louisiana (1966)
- Adderley v. Florida (1966)
- Carroll v. Princess Anne (1968)
- Coates v. Cincinnati (1971)
- Organization for a Better Austin v. Keefe (1971)
- Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins (1980)
- Hill v. Colorado (2000)
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Symbolic speech |
- United States v. O'Brien (1968)
- Cohen v. California (1971)
- Smith v. Goguen (1974)
- Texas v. Johnson (1989)
- United States v. Eichman (1990)
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Compelled speech |
- Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940)
- West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)
- Wooley v. Maynard (1977)
- Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System v. Southworth (2000)
- Davenport v. Washington Education Association (2007)
- Knox v. Service Employees International Union, Local 1000 (2012)
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School speech |
- Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969)
- Island Trees School District v. Pico (1982)
- Bethel School District v. Fraser (1986)
- Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier (1988)
- Rosenberger v. University of Virginia (1995)
- Morse v. Frederick (2007)
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Obscenity |
- Rosen v. United States (1896)
- United States v. One Book Called Ulysses (S.D.N.Y. 1933)
- Roth v. United States (1957)
- One, Inc. v. Olesen (1958)
- Marcus v. Search Warrant (1961)
- MANual Enterprises v. Day (1962)
- Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964)
- Quantity of Books v. Kansas (1964)
- Freedman v. Maryland (1965)
- Memoirs v. Massachusetts (1966)
- Redrup v. New York (1967)
- Ginsberg v. New York (1968)
- Stanley v. Georgia (1969)
- United States v. Thirty-seven Photographs (1971)
- Kois v. Wisconsin (1972)
- Miller v. California (1973)
- Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton (1973)
- United States v. 12 200-ft. Reels of Film (1973)
- Jenkins v. Georgia (1974)
- New York v. Ferber (1982)
- American Booksellers v. Hudnut (7th Cir., 1985)
- Renton v. Playtime Theatres, Inc. (1986)
- Osborne v. Ohio (1990)
- United States v. X-Citement Video (1994)
- Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union (1997)
- United States v. Playboy Entertainment Group (2000)
- Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition (2002)
- Ashcroft v. American Civil Liberties Union (2002)
- Nitke v. Gonzales (S.D.N.Y., 2005)
- United States v. Williams (2008)
- FCC v. Fox Televisions Stations - 2 cases (2009 and 2012)
- American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression v. Strickland (6th Cir., 2009)
- United States v. Kilbride (9th Cir., 2009)
- United States v. Stevens (2010)
- Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association (2011)
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Public employees |
- Garner v. Board of Public Works (1951)
- Pickering v. Board of Education (1968)
- Connick v. Myers (1983)
- Rankin v. McPherson (1987)
- Waters v. Churchill (1994)
- Garcetti v. Ceballos (2006)
- Borough of Duryea v. Guarnieri (2011)
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Hatch Act
and similar laws |
- Ex parte Curtis (1882)
- United Public Workers v. Mitchell (1947)
- United States Civil Service Commission v. National Association of Letter Carriers (1973)
- Broadrick v. Oklahoma (1973)
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Commercial speech |
- Valentine v. Chrestensen (1942)
- Pittsburgh Press Co. v. Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations (1973)
- Bigelow v. Commonwealth of Virginia (1974)
- Virginia State Pharmacy Board v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council (1976)
- Bates v. State Bar of Arizona (1977)
- Linmark Associates, Inc. v. Willingboro (1977)
- Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. v. Public Service Commission (1980)
- Consol. Edison Co. v. Public Serv. Comm'n (1980)
- Hoffman Estates v. The Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. (1982)
- Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. Public Utilities Commission of California (1986)
- Posadas de Puerto Rico Associates v. Tourism Company of Puerto Rico (1986)
- San Francisco Arts & Athletics, Inc. v. United States Olympic Committee (1987)
- 44 Liquormart, Inc. v. Rhode Island (1996)
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Campaign finance and
political speech |
- Buckley v. Valeo (1976)
- First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti (1978)
- Citizens Against Rent Control v. City of Berkeley (1981)
- California Medical Association v. FEC (1981)
- Brown v. Socialist Workers '74 Campaign Committee (1982)
- Regan v. Taxation with Representation of Washington (1983)
- FEC v. National Conservative Political Action Committee (1985)
- FEC v. Massachusetts Citizens for Life (1986)
- Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce (1990)
- McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission (1995)
- Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee v. FEC (1996)
- Nixon v. Shrink Missouri Government PAC (2000)
- FEC v. Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee (2001)
- McConnell v. FEC (2003)
- FEC v. Beaumont (2003)
- Randall v. Sorrell (2006)
- FEC v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc. (2007)
- Davis v. FEC (2008)
- Citizens United v. FEC (2010)
- Arizona Free Enterprise Club’s Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett. (2011)
- American Tradition Partnership v. Bullock (2012)
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