A case in which the Court found that the Espionage Act did not violate the First Amendment if the speech incited resistance to war.

Abrams v. United States: The First Amendment does not protect speech that is designed to undermine the United States in war by fueling sedition and ...

United States, 250 U.S. 616 (1919), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States upholding the criminal arrests of several defendants under the Sedition Act of 1918, which was an amendment to the Espionage Act of 1917. Background · Opinion of the court · Holmes's dissent

In Abrams v. United States, a group of Russian immigrants had circulated leaflets criticizing the United States for sending troops to Eastern Europe after the ...

Each of the first three counts charged the defendants with conspiring, when the United States was at war with the Imperial Government of Germany, to unlawfully.

In the Abrams decision, issued in November 1919, the Court voted 7-2 to uphold the convictions of Abrams and the other defendants. Writing for the majority, ...

Russian immigrants protesting recent US military action in Russia were convicted for two leaflets thrown from a New York City window that called for a strike.

1 янв. 2009 г. · In Abrams v. United States (1919), the Supreme Court upheld convictions of Russian immigrants who had distributed anti-government leaflets.

Abrams and four others (plaintiffs) were convicted of conspiring to violate the Espionage Act of 1917 (EA), as amended in 1918. Abrams printed many copies ...