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Majority Opinion
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Frankfurter, J. |
Dissenting Opinion
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Black, J. (joined by Douglas, J.), & Reed, J. (joined by Douglas, J.), & Dougals, J., & Jackson, J. |
Lower Court
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Illinois Supreme Court |
Lower Court Ruling
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First Amendment claim denied |
Lawyers |
William C. Wines, Assistant Attorney General of Illinois
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News Stories & Commentary |
"Court Dissolves League; White Circle Organization Held Defamatory to Negroes," New York Times, June 30, 1950, p. 19
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"Deriding Race, Creed Is Illegal," Washington Post, April 29, 1952, p. 7
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"Negroe's Defamer Loses; Illinois Supreme Court Upholds 'White Circle' Conviction," New York Times, January 19, 1951, p. 25
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"Racial Libel Test Sought; Civil Liberties Union Calls for Supreme Court Review," New York Times, July 13, 1951, p. 23
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Editorial, "Contracted Freedom," Washington Post, May 1, 1952, p. 14
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Huston, Luther A., "Illinois' Right to 'Group Libel' Law Upheld by High Court in Race Case," New York Times, April 29, 1952, p. 23
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Other |
Arkes, Hadley, "Civility & the Restriction of Speech: Rediscovering the Defamation of Groups," 1974 Supreme Court Review 281
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Barron, Jerome & Dienes, C. Thomas, FIRST AMENDMENT LAW IN A NUTSHELL (3rd ed., 2004), pp. 204-208
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Delgado, Richard & Stefancic, "Hateful Speech, Loving Communities," 82 California Law Review 851 (1994)
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Delgado, Richard, "Words that Wound: A Tort Action for Racial Insults, Epithets, and Name-Calling," 17 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 133 (1982)
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Freedman, Monroe & Freedman, Eric, editors, GROUP DEFAMATION & FREE SPEECH: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE & VIOLENCE (1995)
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Greenawalt, Kent, "Insults & Epithets: Are They Protected Speech?," 42 Rutgers Law Review 287 (1990)
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Hentoff, Nat, FREE SPEECH FOR ME -- BUT NOT FOR THEE (1992)
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Lawrence, Charles, "If He Hollers, Let Him Go: Regulating Racist Speech on Campus," 1990 Duke Law Journal 431
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Lederer, Laura & Delgado, Richard, THE PRICE WE PAY: THE CASE AGAINST RACIST SPEECH, HATE PROPOGANDA & PORNOGRAPHY (1994)
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Matduda, Mari, editor, WORDS THAT WOUND (1993)
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Matsuda, Mari, "Public Response to Racist Speech: Considering the Victim's Story," 87 Michigan Law Review 2320 (1989)
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Post, Robert, "Racist Speech, Democracy, and the First Amendment," 32 William & Mary Law Review 267 (1991)
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Reisman, David, "Democracy & Defamation: Control of Group Libel," 42 Columbia Law Review 727 (1942)
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Shiell, Timothy, CAMPUS HATE SPEECH ON TRIAL (1998), pp. 42-44, 60, 83
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Smolla, Rodney, SMOLLA & NIMMER ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH (1994), section 6
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Tribe, Laurence, AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (2nd ed., 1988), pp. 926-927
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Weinstein, James, HATE SPEECH, PORNOGRAPHY, AND THE RADICAL ATTACK ON FREE SPEECH DOCTRINE (1999)
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