People's Court
In 1907, Justice Oliver Wendell Homes wrote the majority opinion in this case that upheld a conviction of a newspaper publisher for publishing critical articles and cartoon about state judges.
What is Patterson v. Colorado?
New Orleans went so far as to label him a “liar, crook, petty larceny thief and scoundrel.”
Who is Huey Long?
A political rift was first created between Huey Long and the Louisiana newspapers over Long's increase in taxes for this particular company.
What is Standard Oil Company?
This major stock market event brought the Roaring Twenties to a close and ushered in the Great Depression.
What is the Wall Street Crash of 1929 or Black Tuesday?
Known, in part, for his populist views on wealth distribution and anti-corporationalist attitudes, Huey Long also went by this nick name.
Who is the King Fish?
Arguably the most important words ever written by SCOTUS can be found in the footnote of this 1938 case.
What is United States v. Carolene Products Co.?
He believed that “the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas—that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.”
Who is Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes?
Journalists and newspapers which worked to reveal corruption within government and corporations engaged in this type of journalism.
What is muckraking journalism?
This corporation spearheaded and bankrolled Jay Near's lawsuit challenging a Minnesota law that allowed the closing of newspapers that created a public nuisance.
What is the Tribune Company, owner of the Chicago Tribune?
This controversial Louisiana law imposed a 2% tax on newspapers that had a weekly circulation of 20,000 or more, and ultimately found itself at the center of a lawsuit which made its way up to the United States Supreme Court.
What is the Advertisement Tax?
He did not benefit from the decision in the case, bearing his name, that was a groundbreaking ruling greatly expanding the scope of free speech protections.
Who is Benjamin Gitlow (or Gitlow v. New York)?
Described as a strong-willed and visionary publisher, he saw Near v. Minnesota as an opportunity to set a First Amendment precedent that would extend to his corporation’s newspapers.
Who is Robert McCormick?
Long justified his 2% advertising tax on the largest newspapers in Louisiana by claiming the revenue would finance this statewide cause.
What is educational reform?
According to Justice Sutherland's opinion in Grosjean, a corporation is considered a person under these constitutional clauses.
What are the Equal Protection Clause and the Due Process Clause?
Until being struck down by the Supreme Court in Near v. Minnesota, these Minnesota laws were used to shutter Newspapers for distributing material that was considered "malicious, scandalous, and defamatory."
What are "Public Nuisance Laws?"
This case has become "an iconic statement that corporations have no obligations beyond the bottom line."
What is Dodge Brothers v. Ford Motor Company?
He was expelled from the state bar for improperly using his position as attorney general to quash an investigation into election fraud by Huey Long.
Who is Gaston L. Porterie?
The Grosjean opinion was issued at the same time as this global event, which showed an example of the dangers of political persecution.
What is the 1936 Winter Olympics?
Henry Ford testified that this was the Ford Motor Company's purpose, much to the Dodge brothers' chagrin.
What is "to do as much as we can, everywhere, for everyone concerned"?
OR
What is "only incidentally make money"?
Following the end of the First World War, Congress passed these laws making "disloyal speech" a crime.
What is the Espionage Act of 1917?
AND/OR
What is the Sedition act of 1918?
In February of 1936, SCOTUS issued it's opinion in this landmark case as Americans were being reminded of the dangers of political persecution in newspaper stories about athletes marching past Adolf Hitler.
What is Grosjean v. American Press Company?
With footnote #4, he marked the end of the Lochner era.
Who is Justice Harlan Fiske Stone?
In Grosjean, corporations won a broad new liberty right partly because Louisiana's lawyers focused on this Constitutional clause, which was inapplicable to the case.
What is the privileges and immunities clause?
During the New Deal, the federal government created this corporation to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to a region particularly affected by the Great Depression.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
In Grosjean v. American Press Company, this legal duo made several arguments before the Supreme Court, but perhaps more notably failed to make the argument that there was a consistent line of precedent holding that corporations had property rights but not liberty rights.
Who are Gaston L. Poterie and Charles Rivet?