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'Innocence of Muslims' doesn't meet free-speech test
by Sarah Chayes
Los Angeles Times
September 18, 2012
https://www.legal-project.org/3105/innocence-of-muslims-doesnt-meet-free-speech-test
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In one of the most famous 1st Amendment cases in U.S. history, Schenck vs. United States, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. established that the right to free speech in the United States is not unlimited. "The most stringent protection," he wrote on behalf of a unanimous court, "would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic."
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