| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - Communists - 1958 - 242 pages
...first amendment rights only where "the gravity of the 'evil,' discounted by its improbability justified such invasion of free speech as is necessary to avoid the danger." United States v. Dennis (183 F. 2d 201, 212), adopted in Dennis v. United States (341 US 494, 510).... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Administrative procedure - 1960 - 988 pages
...Cf. Alpert v. Board of Governors of City Hosp., 286 App. Div. 542, 547, 145 NYS2d 534, 538 (1955). In each case [courts] must ask whether the gravity...invasion of free speech as is necessary to avoid the danger.150 The difficulty of analogizing this approach to the problems involved in limiting confrontation... | |
| the late Bernard Schwartz - Law - 1998 - 329 pages
...marked a dismal low point of protection for free expression. "The gravity of the evil," Hand said, "discounted by its improbability, justifies such invasion of free speech as is necessary to avoid the danger."18 The choice of that notoriously unsuccessful test led Benno Schmidt to describe the Nebraska... | |
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