Legal Opinion
People v. Nahman
New York Court of Special Session
Decided April 29, 1947Published
1Per curiam
On March 15, 1946, at 12:30 p.m. the appellants, thirteen in number, as part of a prearranged plan, carried placards into City Hall Park and were shouting disapproval of Winston Churchill who was then the guest of the Mayor of the City of New York. These placards contained inscriptions similar in content, and typical of them was the inscription which appeared on the one carried by appellant Nahman: “ No American shall die for Churchill’s Empire.”
The appellants had no permit to carry these placards and there is no evidence that an application had been made to the Park Commissioner for a…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Haguer v. Committee for Industrial OrganizationSupreme Court of the United States · 1939
- Davis v. MassachusettsSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
- Williams v. . GallatinNew York Court of Appeals · 1920
- People v. County of WestchesterNew York Court of Appeals · 1940
- Perrin v. . New York Central Railroad Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1867
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