Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization
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This article related to the Supreme Court of the United States is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.| Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization | ||||||||||||
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| Argued February 27 – 28, 1939 Decided June 5, 1939 |
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| The Court held that Hague's ban on political meetings violated the First Amendment right to freedom of assembly, and so the ordinances were void. | ||||||||||||
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| Chief Justice: Charles Evans Hughes Associate Justices: James Clark McReynolds, Louis Brandeis, Pierce Butler, Harlan Fiske Stone, Owen Josephus Roberts, Hugo Black, Stanley Forman Reed, Felix Frankfurter, William O. Douglas |
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| Concurrence by: Roberts Joined by: Black Concurrence by: Stone Joined by: Reed Concurrence by: Hughes Dissent by: McReynolds Dissent by: Butler Frankfurter and Douglas took no part in the consideration or decision of the case. |
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| U.S. Const. amend. I | ||||||||||||
Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization, 307 U.S. 496 (1939), is a case decided by the United States Supreme Court. The case involved Jersey City, New Jersey Mayor Frank "Boss" Hague who had in 1937 used a city ordinance to prevent labor meetings in public places and stop the distribution of literature pertaining to the CIO's cause. He referred to them as "communist."
District and circuit courts ruled in favor of the CIO which brought the suit against the mayor for these actions. Hague appealed to the Supreme Court which ruled against him and held that Hague's ban on political meetings violated the First Amendment right to freedom of assembly, and so the ordinances were void.
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[edit] External links
- Full text of the decision from FindLaw.com
- First Amendment Library entry on Hague
