Participant Info
- Case
- Bridges v. California
- Citation
- 314 US 252
- Type
- Majority
- Year
- 1941
- Description
In Bridges v. California, Black writes for a 5-4 majority holding that newspaper criticism of a state court is a right of a free press: “For the First Amendment does not speak equivocally. It prohibits any law “abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” It must be taken as a command of the broadest scope that explicit language, read in the context of a liberty-loving society, will allow.”
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