Whitney+v+California

=Whitney V. California:=

March 18, 1926 - May 16, 1927
Charlotte Anita Whitney was prosecuted for a state's Criminal Syndicalism Act. This act prohibited advocation, teaching, or aiding in the commission of a crime. This included, "terrorism as a means of accomplishing a change in industrial ownership of effecting any political change."

**__Case Basics__**
3
 * Docket No.**

Whitney
 * Petitioner**

California
 * Respondent**

Taft Court (1925-1930)
 * Decided By**

274 U.S. 357 (1927)
 * Opinion**

Thursday, March 18, 1926
 * Argued**

Monday, May 16, 1927
 * Decided**

**__Conclusion__**
The decision was unanimous; The court sustained Whitney's conviction because the Act did not violate the Constitution. The act did not violate neither the Die Process Clause or the Equal Protection Clause and that freedom of speech was not an absolute right. Their decision was not open for question.

Justice Brandeis argued that only clear, present and imminent threats of serious evils could justify suppression of speech.

http://www.oyez.org/cases/1901-1939/1925/1925_3