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Curious Concurrence: Justice Brandeis' Vote in Whitney v. CaliforniaDavid SkoverSeattle University School of Law Ronald K. L. CollinsUniversity of Washington - School of Law Supreme Court Review, p. 333, 2006 Seattle University School of Law Research Paper No. 09-03 Abstract: A piece of jurisprudential sleuthing, this article uncovers the back story for a puzzle unanswered by legal historians for some eighty years: Why would the free-speech libertarian Louis Brandeis write the most famous paean to First Amendment normative values in his opinion in Whitney v. United States, and yet join (by way of a concurring opinion) the judgment of the majority of the Court that would have sent the "patrician radical" Anita Whitney to prison for a 14-year term solely for participating in the formation of the California Communist Labor Party? Part of the puzzle is provided by the unpublished Brandeis opinion in Rutherford v. Michigan, which is provided as an appendix to the article. This work was publicly recognized for its excellence in the Legal History Blog.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 43 Keywords: Whitney, Brandeis, criminal syndicalism, First Amendment, war, Sedition Act, Ruthenberg Accepted Paper SeriesDate posted: February 23, 2007 ; Last revised: July 20, 2011Suggested CitationContact Information
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