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Legal Citation: 268 U.S. 652 (1925)

Petitioner
Benjamin Gitlow, publisher of The Revolutionary Age newspaper

Respondent
State of New York

Petitioner's Claim
That a statute making a crime of anarchy violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Chief Lawyers for Petitioner
Walter Nelles and Walter H. Pollak

Chief Lawyers for Respondent
W.J. Weatherbee, Deputy Attorney General of New York, and John Caldwell Myers, Assistant District Attorney of New York County

Justices for the Court
Pierce Butler, James Clark McReynolds, Edward Terry Sanford (writing for the Court), Harlan Fiske Stone, George Sutherland, William Howard Taft, Willis Van Devanter

Justices Dissenting
Louis D. Brandeis, Oliver Wendell Holmes

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
8 June...