249 U.S. 47 (1919) Cited 746 times 6 Legal Analyses
Finding the right to free speech to be limited during World War I, reasoning “[w]hen a nation is at war many things that might be said in time of peace are such a hindrance to its effort that their utterance will not be endured”
In Carpenters District Council v. Sperry ex rel. NLRB, 170 F.2d 863, 868-69 (1948), the United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit, addressed the claim of the defendant union that its peaceful picketing and blacklisting of a construction company was protected by the First Amendment.