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Thornhill v. Alabama (doc. #: 514) (1940)  [Findlaw]

Secondary Link Thornhill v. Alabama  [Legal Information Institute]
Argument Date 02/29/1940
Decided 04/22/1940
Supreme Court Vote 8-1
Supreme Court Ruling First Amendment claim sustained
 
IssueWhether peacful picketing to publicize the fact of a labor dispute is protected under the First and Fourteenth Amendments.
 
Case Summary & Additional Resources
Majority Opinion Murphy, J.
Dissenting Opinion McReynolds, J.
Lower Court Alabama Supreme Court
Lower Court Ruling First Amendment claim denied
Lawyers
For Petitioner
James J. Mayfield, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., and Joseph A. Padway, of Washington, D.C

For Respondent
William H. Loeb, of Montgomery, Ala.

News Stories & Commentary
"Anti-Picketing Laws Are Invalidated by the Supreme Court," New York Times, April 23, 1940, p. 1
"City's Picketing Ordinance Legality Declared in Doubt; City Attorney Says Supreme Court Decision Must Be Studied Before Opinion Reached," Los Angeles Times, April 23, 1940, p. 4
"Picketing Laws Upset as Peril to Free Speech; U. S. Supreme Court Kills Two Statutes," Chicago Daily Tribune, April 23, 1940, p. 4
Editorial, "Free Speech in Labor Disputes," April 26, 1940, p. 14
Editorial, "Peaceful Picketing Gets Supreme Court Sanction," Christian Century, May 8, 1940
Editorial, "Picketing as Free Speech," New York Times, April 24, 1940, p. 18
Editorial, "The Right To Picket," Washington Post, April 24, 1940, p. 10
Francis, Warren B., "Picketing Bans Upset by High Court Decision; Alabama and Shasta County Measures Held Contrary to Provisions of Constitution Picketing Bans Upset Alabama and Shasta Measures Condemned by Supreme Court," L.A.Times, April 23, 1940, p. 1
Oakes, John B., "Court Nulls Sweeping Laws On Picketing; Opinion by Murphy Issued on Alabama, California Cases," Washington Post, April 23, 1940, p. 2
Other
Chafee, Zechariah, FREE SPEECH IN THE UNITED STATES (1948), pp. 435-436, 469-470, 545
Cox, Archibald, "Strikes, Picketing & the Constitution," 4 Vanderbilt Law Review 574 (1951)
Emerson, Thomas, THE SYSTEM OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION (1970), pp. 294, 315, 436-438, 441, 446, 448
Gregory, Charles O. & Katz, Harold A., LABOR AND THE LAW (1946)
Howard, J. Woodford, MR. JUSTICE MURPHY: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY (1968), pp. 238-251, 254-262, 266, 289, 346, 383, 402, 464, 471-472
Jones, Edgar A., Jr., "Free Speech: Pickets on the Grass, Alas! -- Amidst Confusion, a Consistent Principle," 29 Southern California Law Review 137 (1956).
Kalven, Jr., Harry, A WORTHY TRADITION (1988), pp. 179-180, 605
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