Case Categories: Seditious Speech

• Abrams v. United States (1919)

  In Abrams v. United States (1919) the Supreme Court upheld convictions of several people for distributing leaflets advocating their radical political views. In...

• 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 socialist leader Eugene Debs’s conviction...

• Epton v. New York (1968)

  In Epton v. New York (1968), the Supreme Court declined to review the conspiracy and anarchy convictions of African-American Marxist leader William Epton, who...

• Frohwerk v. United States (1919)

  In Frohwerk v. United States (1919), the Supreme Court affirmed the conviction of a political dissident for articles he had published criticizing American...