The White Court (1910–21)

First Amendment

What was Justice Holmes’s famous phrase from this case that involves fire in a theatre?

Justice Holmes used the following analogy as an example of a type of speech that was not protected by the First Amendment: “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.”



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