Beauharnais v. Illinois - Wikipedia
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Beauharnais v. Illinois, 343 U.S. 250 (1952), was a case that came before the United States Supreme Court in 1952. It upheld an Illinois law making it illegal to publish or exhibit any writing or picture portraying the "depravity, criminality, unchastity, or lack of virtue of a class of citizens of any race, color, creed or religion". It is most known for giving a legal basis to some degree that forms of hate speech that may be deemed to breach US libel law are not protected by the First Amendment Dissent: Black, joined by Douglas Majority: Frankfurter, joined by Vinson, Burton, Clark, Minton Full case name: Beauharnais v. Illinois
Dissent: Black, joined by Douglas
Majority: Frankfurter, joined by Vinson, Burton, Clark, Minton
Full case name: Beauharnais v. Illinois
DA: 41 PA: 48 MOZ Rank: 47