386 U.S. 171 (1967) Cited 4,217 times 2 Legal Analyses
Holding that, under the LMRA, an "individual employee has absolute right to have his grievance taken to arbitration regardless of the provisions of the applicable collective bargaining agreement"
413 U.S. 15 (1973) Cited 2,156 times 6 Legal Analyses
Holding that a statute regulating obscene speech must be limited to works that depict or describe sexual conduct "which, taken as a whole, appeal to the prurient interest in sex, which portray sexual conduct in a patently offensive way, and which, taken as a whole, do not have serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value"
427 U.S. 539 (1976) Cited 1,452 times 7 Legal Analyses
Holding that challenge to restraining order against press coverage of trial that expired after jury empanelment was not moot because such orders are short lived and press was likely to dispute similar orders in the future
403 U.S. 713 (1971) Cited 876 times 3 Legal Analyses
Holding that a claim of potential harm to national security does not provide the executive branch with unconstrained authority to override the freedom of the press
394 U.S. 705 (1969) Cited 847 times 4 Legal Analyses
Holding that the defendant engaged in protected speech where he stated, "[i]f they ever make me carry a rifle the first man I want to get in my sights is L.B.J," during speech at Washington Monument opposing military draft
372 U.S. 58 (1963) Cited 917 times 4 Legal Analyses
Holding that actions of Rhode Island state commission, which "exhort[ed] booksellers" not to carry disfavored non-obscene titles, violated the First Amendment where the commission's communications were "phrased virtually as orders," were "invariably followed up by police visitations," and led distributor to acquiesce in a manner that the lower courts found "was not voluntary"