Exam One, Comm 3700

Son of Sam” Law: was a Supreme Court case dealing with Son of Sam laws, which are state laws that prevent convicted criminals from publishing books about their crime for profit. Simon & Schuster challenged the law's application to profits from Nicholas Pileggi's book Wiseguy: A Life in a Mafia Family, which was written with paid assistance from former mobster Henry Hill

Political Money is Speechwas a case in which the United States Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that corporations had a First Amendment right to make contributions in order to attempt to influence political processes.

Limited rights for kids/high school students· as a school speech case in which the United States Supreme Court held that the First Amendment does not prevent educators from suppressing student speech, at a school-supervised event, that is reasonably viewed as promoting illegal drug use.^[1]Background. In 2002, high school principal Deborah Morse suspended 18-year-old Joseph Frederick after he displayed a banner reading "BONG HiTS 4 JESUS,"

· was an important United States Supreme Court case involving what constitutes unprotected obscenityfor First Amendment purposes. The decision reiterated that obscenity was not protected by the First Amendment and established the Miller testfor determining what constituted obscene material.

Is a landmark case in United States law. It formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution. Marbury v. Madison was the first time the Supreme Court declared something "unconstitutional,"

Was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States that ruled that a criminal prohibition against burning a draft card did not violate the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech. Though the Court recognized that O'Brien's conduct was expressive as a protest against the Vietnam War, it considered the law justified by a significant government interest that was unrelated to the suppression of speech and was tailored towards that end. Though O'Brien upheld the government's power to prosecute what was becoming a pervasive method of anti-war protest

· CCNV wanted to camp on the national mall (a sleep-in). Was a protest, but no one could sleep over on the national mall. CCNV lost because the law was content neutral and passed the O’BRIEN TEST.

Strict Scrutiny was applied to a law that you couldn’t campaign within 100 ft. of polls. After Strict Scrutiny was applied it was ruled that law was okay

· was a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. This case was remarkable in its discussion of the requirement of persons to seek government sanction to distribute religious material. In this particular case, the Supreme Court ruled it was not constitutional for a city to require such sanction. (Jehovah Witness wanted to hand out fliers… didn’t need permission.) (Licensing)

· was a case in which the United States Supreme Court limited the ability of local governments to charge fees for the use of public places for private activities. By 5-4, the court ruled that an ordinance allowing the local government to set varying fees for different events violated the First Amendment due to the lack of "narrowly drawn, reasonable, and definite standards" governing the amount of the fee. (Parade fees had to be the same… Free speech is important enough that city should eat the cost).

Was a United States Supreme Court decision which upheld the Espionage Act of 1917 and concluded that a defendant did not have a First Amendment right to free speech against the draft during World War I. Charles Schenck was the Secretary of the Socialist party and was responsible for printing, distributing, and mailing 15,000 leaflets to men eligible for the draft that advocated opposition to the draft

Was a United States Supreme Court decision that upheld the Espionage Act of 1917. Eugene V. Debs was an American labor and political leader and five-time Socialist Party of America candidate for the American Presidency. On June 16, 1918 Debs made an anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio, protesting US involvement in World War I, and he was subsequently arrested under the Espionage Act of 1917. He was

· Jacob Frohwerk, a onetime copy editor for a Missouri German-language newspaper, was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for helping to prepare and publish antidraft articles. He was also fined $500. US Supreme Court Said the law was fine. (BAD TENDENCY TEST)

Was a decision of the United States Supreme Court involving the 1918 Amendment to the Espionage Act of 1917, which made it a criminal offense to urge curtailment of production of the materials necessary to the war against Germany with intent to hinder the progress of the war. The defendants were convicted on the basis of two leaflets they printed and threw from windows of a building in New York City.

Was a decision by the United States Supreme Court, which ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution had extended the reach of certain provisions of the First Amendment—specifically the provisions protecting freedom of speech and freedom of the press—to the governments of the individual states. Gitlow v. New York was also important for defining the scope of the First Amendment's protection of free speech following the period of the "Red Scare," in which Communists and Socialist Party members were routinely convicted for violating the Espionage Act of 1917 and Sedition Act of 1918.