Nolo's Plain-English Law Dictionary
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- Schenk V. United States (1919)
- U.S. Supreme Court decision sustaining the Espionage Act of 1917. The Court ruled that freedom of speech and freedom of the press could be limited if the words in the circumstances created "a clear and present danger."


