Freedom of Expression in the Supreme Court: The Defining CasesTerry Eastland Rowman & Littlefield, 2000 - 397 pages In Freedom of Expression in the Supreme Court, Terry Eastland brings together the Court's leading First Amendment cases, some 60 in all, starting with Schenck v. United States (1919) and ending with Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union (1998). Complete with a comprehensive introduction, pertinent indices and a useful bibliography, Freedom of Expression in the Supreme Court offers the general and specialized reader alike a thorough treatment of the Court's understanding on the First Amendment's speech, press, assembly, and petition clauses. |
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... principles and organizing its powers in such forms , as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness . In the understanding of the Founders , it was a " self - evident truth " that every human being , sim- ply by ...
... principles and organizing its powers in such forms , as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness . In the understanding of the Founders , it was a " self - evident truth " that every human being , sim- ply by ...
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... principles that jurors , not judges , should decide whether something was libelous , and that defendants should be able to plead truth as a defense . But no state embraced these principles in its law in the years before the Bill of ...
... principles that jurors , not judges , should decide whether something was libelous , and that defendants should be able to plead truth as a defense . But no state embraced these principles in its law in the years before the Bill of ...
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... principles of allowing the jury to judge criminality and the defendant to plead truth as a defense , it was more libertarian than the understanding of seditious libel that had prevailed in the states through at least 1791. Even so ...
... principles of allowing the jury to judge criminality and the defendant to plead truth as a defense , it was more libertarian than the understanding of seditious libel that had prevailed in the states through at least 1791. Even so ...
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... principles into their libel laws , with some requiring that defendants pleading truth as a defense also show that they published from " good motives . " Libel law re- mained a matter for the states alone to decide until 1964 , when the ...
... principles into their libel laws , with some requiring that defendants pleading truth as a defense also show that they published from " good motives . " Libel law re- mained a matter for the states alone to decide until 1964 , when the ...
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Contents
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VI | 5 |
VII | 10 |
VIII | 18 |
IX | 22 |
X | 24 |
XIII | 30 |
XIV | 34 |
XLIV | 183 |
XLV | 190 |
XLVII | 193 |
XLVIII | 196 |
L | 207 |
LI | 216 |
LII | 233 |
LIII | 238 |
XV | 37 |
XVII | 43 |
XVIII | 45 |
XX | 49 |
XXI | 52 |
XXII | 54 |
XXIII | 63 |
XXIV | 71 |
XXV | 77 |
XXVI | 86 |
XXVII | 94 |
XXVIII | 100 |
XXIX | 105 |
XXXI | 110 |
XXXII | 121 |
XXXIII | 131 |
XXXIV | 135 |
XXXV | 142 |
XXXVI | 146 |
XXXVII | 153 |
XXXVIII | 156 |
XL | 164 |
XLI | 166 |
XLII | 171 |
XLIII | 176 |
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