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The United States Supreme Court has, over its history, but particularly during the twentieth century, dealt with many cases involving the First Amendment and freedom of speech, particularly symbolic speech. In cases such as Schenck v. United States 249 US 47 1919, Gitlow v. New York 268 US 652 1925, Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire 315 U.S. 568 1942, New York Times Co. v. Sullivan Miller v. California 413 US 15 1973, and others, the Supreme Court has had to adjudicate issues relating to freedom of speech; in more recent years, the Court has tended to rule in favor of the speech that came into question.
The case was argued in the U.S. Supreme Court on 4 December 1991.
From the decision of the court, 505 US 377:
The trial court rejected the charge against the petitioner on the grounds that the statute in question was overly broad and "impermissably content-based."
On 22 June 1992, the Supreme Court overturned the trial court's decision, but still declared the City's ordinance unconstitutional. As Justice Antonin Scalia asserted in the opinion of the Court,
Background
The Case
The Decision
Trial Court
Supreme Court
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