Legal Opinion
Ascheim v. Quinlan
District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania
Decided March 19, 1971No. Civ. A. No. 70-670PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WEIS, District Judge.
The privilege of free expression has always been cherished by Americans and it is some measure of the priorities which they have assigned to their various liberties that among the rights chosen for inclusion in the very First Amendment of the Constitution and articulated among the earliest clauses of the Bill of Rights are those of freedom of speech and assembly.
We have chosen to follow a philosophy that everyone has a right to express his opinions on the burning issues of the day, be his views ever so unpopular, leaving evaluation of their wisdom to the inexorable…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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- Cameron v. JohnsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Scott v. FreyDistrict Court, E.D. Louisiana · 1971