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· 6/26/1972

Police Dept. of Chicago v. Mosley

Citations

  • 408 U.S. 92
  • 92 S. Ct. 2286
  • 33 L. Ed. 2d 212
  • 1972 U.S. LEXIS 133

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that municipality could not exempt labor picketing from a general prohibition on picketing at a school
  • holding that picketing ban imposed to prevent disruption of school was not content neutral when the ban allowed picketing on some topics but not others
  • holding that picketing ban imposed to prevent disruption of school was not content neutral when the ban allowed picketing on some topics but not others
  • holding that “above all else, the First Amendment means that government has no power to restrict expression because of its message, its ideas, its subject matter, or its content”
  • holding that ordinance which impermissibly distinguished between labor picketing and all other peaceful picketing violates the Equal Protection Clause
  • holding that a no-picketing law that contained an exception for labor-related picketing violated the equal protection clause as a targeted restriction of expression under the First Amendment

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Judges: Marshall

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