Fiske v. Kansas

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• reversing conviction of organizer of the Industrial Workers of the World for criminal syndicalism, based on references to class struggle in the union's constitution
• “where a conclusion of law as to a Federal right and a finding of fact are so intermingled as to make it necessary, in order to pass upon the Federal question, to analyze the facts,” independent review is appropriate
• “this Court will review the findings of facts by a State court . . . where a conclusion of law as to a Federal right and a finding of fact are so intermingled as to make it necessary, in order to pass upon the Federal question, to analyze the facts.”
• Court reaches own \inference” about IWW preamble; Court must review state fact-finding \where a conclusion of law as to a Federal right and a finding of fact are so intermingled as to make it necessary, in order to pass upon the Federal question, to analyze the facts”
• first amendment free speech guarantee applied
• first amendment free speech guarantee applied

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).