Julian v. American Business Consultants, Inc.

No one may dispute or question the high necessity and great value of a publication alerting the public or an industry to the menace of Communism, or any other situation considered dangerous, and suggesting the means and method to combat it. The constitutional guarantee of free speech assures to defendants their right to speak out against such a danger, but, as the Constitution of this State explicitly declares (art. I, § 8), they are “ responsible for the abuse of that right ”. (See, also, Robertson v. Baldwin, 165 U. S. 275, 281.) The existence of danger does not, of course, suspend the law…