United States v. William Steele

How courts have described this case

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• prosecution unlawful if it is an act of discrimination against those who exercise their First Amendment rights
• prosecution unlawful if it is an act of discrimination against those who exercise their First Amendment rights
• selective enforcement of census form statute against census resisters who exercised right of free speech
• discriminatory investigation taints prosecution where normal procedures for selecting cases for prosecution have apparently been bypassed
• prosecution unlawful if it is an act of discrimination against those who exercise their First Amendment rights
• the defendant is “entitled to an acquittal if his evidence proved that the authorities purposefully discriminated against those who chose to exercise their First Amendment rights”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).