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Legal Citation: 221 U.S. 418 (1911)

Petitioners
Samuel Gompers, et al.

Respondent
Buck's Stove & Range Company

Petitioners' Claim
That even though they violated the terms of an injunction, the actions of Gompers and others in the American Federation of Labor were protected under the First Amendment.

Chief Lawyers for Petitioners
Alton B. Parker, Jackson H. Ralston

Chief Lawyers for Respondent
J. J. Darlington, Daniel Davenport

Justices for the Court
William Rufus Day, John Marshall Harlan I, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Evans Hughes, Joseph Rucker Lamar (writing for the Court), Horace Harmon Lurton, Joseph McKenna, Willis Van Devanter, Edward Douglass White

Justices Dissenting
None

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
15 May 1911

Decision
The Court...