Tag: Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

  • Falsely Shouting FIRE in a Crowded Theater

    Falsely Shouting FIRE in a Crowded Theater

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    “A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER” by Linda Goudsmit, ©2019, blogging at Pundicity (Mar. 23, 2019) — Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’s opinion in the 1919 United States Supreme Court case Schenck v. United States held that speech that is dangerous AND false is not protected, as opposed to speech that is dangerous but also true. Holmes…

  • Have the ‘Supremes’ Gone Plumb Loco?

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    RECENT OPINIONS ARE DEVOID OF CONSTITUTIONALITY by Ron Ewart, ©2011 (Jun. 11, 2011) — “The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and juries. In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of…