Case Categories: Seditious Speech

• Abrams v. United States (1919)

  The dissenting opinion in Abrams v. United States (1919) advanced the free marketplace of ideas even though the majority opinion stifled First Amendment...

• Debs v. United States (1919)

  In Debs v. United States (1919), a low point in the protection of free speech during wartime, the Court sustained a socialist leader's conviction under the...

• Epton v. New York (1968)

  Epton v. New York (1968) declined to review the convictions of Marxist leader William Epton, who said his convictions violated his First Amendment free speech...

• Frohwerk v. United States (1919)

  Frohwerk v. United States (1919) upheld a conviction for an article criticizing World War I while also affirming that First Amendment rights do not disappear...