Legal Opinion
Milk Wagon Drivers Union, Local 753 v. Meadowmoor Dairies, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 17, 1941No. 1PublishedCited by 495 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*291Mu. Justice Frankfurter
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The supreme court of Illinois sustained an injunction against the Milk Wagon Drivers Union over the latter’s claim that it involved an infringement of the freedom of speech guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. Since this ruling raised a question intrinsically important, as well as affecting the scope of Thornhill v. Alabama, 310 U. S. 88, and Carlson v. California, 310 U. S. 108, we brought the case here. 310 U. S. 655.
The “vendor system” for distributing milk in Chicago gave rise to the dispute. Under that system, which was fully…
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