Legal Opinion
Younger v. Harris
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 23, 1971No. 2PublishedCited by 14,484 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Black
Appellee, John Harris, Jr., was indicted in a California state court, charged with violation of the California Penal Code §§ 11400 and 11401, known as the California Criminal Syndicalism Act, set out below.1 He then filed *39a complaint in the Federal District Court, asking that court to enjoin the appellant, Younger, the District Attorney of Los Angeles County, from prosecuting him, and alleging that the prosecution and even the presence of the Act inhibited him in the exercise of his rights of free speech and press, rights guaranteed him by the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Appellees Jim…
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