New York Times Co. v. Sullivan

Holding that a public official or public figure can recover damages for defamation on a matter of public concern only if he proves that the speaker acted with actual malice

Texas v. Johnson

Holding that Johnson's conviction for burning the American flag violates the First Amendment

McCullen v. Coakley

Holding unconstitutional buffer zone restriction requiring plaintiffs to stand a substantial distance away from an abortion provider's driveway

Madsen v. Women's Health Center, Inc.

Holding that an injunction against anti-abortion protesters was not viewpoint discriminatory because "none of the restrictions imposed by the court were directed at the contents of petitioner's message."

Naacp v. Claiborne Hardware Co.

Holding that a state common law prohibition on malicious interference with business could not, under the circumstances, be constitutionally applied to a civil rights boycott of white merchants

Carey v. Brown

Holding that ordinance violated equal protection where it banned all residential picketing except picketing of a place of employment involved in a labor dispute

Schenck v. Pro-Choice Network, Western N.Y

Holding that an injunction provision that required abortion protestors to move away from abortion clinic patients who asked to be left alone did not violate the First Amendment

Legal Services Corporation v. Velazquez

Holding challenged funding condition on legal services unconstitutional because it "exclude[d] certain vital theories and ideas"

Organization for a Better Austin v. Keefe

Holding injunction on dispersing pamphlets with realtor's home phone number and urging recipients to call him to urge certain political stance was prior restraint that violated First Amendment

Carroll v. Princess Anne

Holding that a First Amendment challenge to an expired restraining order which had enjoined a rally was not moot

Section 500.1 - General requirements