310 U.S. 88 (1940) Cited 1,704 times 1 Legal Analyses
Holding that a law is overbroad if it does not aim specifically at evils within the allowable area of control, but sweeps within its ambit other activities that constitute an exercise of First Amendment rights
221 U.S. 418 (1911) Cited 1,559 times 1 Legal Analyses
Holding criminal contempt does not “undo or remedy what has been done, nor afford any compensation for the pecuniary injury caused by the disobedience”
Holding an injunction banning picketing was "justified only by the violence that induced it and only so long as it counteracts a continuing intimidation"
In AFL v. Swing, 312 U.S. 321, 61 S.Ct. 568, 85 L.Ed. 855 (1941), the Illinois Supreme Court had enjoined picketing by a labor union on the ground that there was no dispute between the employer and his immediate employees.
Holding that the Associated Press's not-for-profit newsgathering activities "amount[ed] to commercial intercourse . . . within the meaning of the Constitution" because it "involve[d] the constant use of channels of interstate . . . communication"
Holding unconstitutionally overbroad an ordinance outlawing the display of a sign near a business to encourage others not to work or purchase goods there
314 U.S. 469 (1941) Cited 169 times 2 Legal Analyses
In NLRB v. Virginia Electric Power Co., 314 U.S. 469, 477, 62 S.Ct. 344, 348, 86 L.Ed. 348 (1941), the Supreme court concluded that the Wagner Act could not be interpreted to prohibit an employer from exercising his First Amendment right to express his views to employees on the merits of unionization, provided the expression was neither coercive nor part of a coercive course of conduct.