Hatzenbuhler v. Modern Woodmen of America

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• anti-Vietnam War protestors charged with conspiracy “framed under” the Military Selective Service Act of 1967
• ‘‘[t]o ask the jury special questions might be said to infringe on its power to deliberate free from legal fetters; on its power to arrive at a general verdict without having to support it by reasons or by a report of its deliberations’’ [internal quotation marks omitted]
• “[T]he jury, as the conscience of the community, must be permitted to look at more than logic. . . . The constitutional guarantees of due process and trial by jury require that a criminal defendant be afforded the full protection of a jury unfettered, directly or indirectly.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).