Petitioner, Forsyth County enacted Ordinance No. 34 which mandated permits for private demonstrations and other uses of public property. It also declared that the cost of protecting participants in such activities exceeded the usual and normal cost of...

District of Columbia Code § 22-1115 made it unlawful, within 500 feet of a foreign embassy, either to display any sign that tends to bring the foreign government into "public odium" or "public disrepute" (display clause), or to...

In 1981, Renton City Council enacted Ordinance No. 3526 which prohibited any adult motion picture theater from locating within 1,000 feet of any residential zone, single- or multiple-family dwelling, church, or park, and within one mile of any school...

In 1982, the National Park Service issued a permit to respondent Community for Creative Non-Violence (CCNV) to conduct a demonstration in Lafayette Park and the Mall, which are National Parks in the heart of Washington, D. C. The purpose of the demonstration...

On the evening of July 8, 1939, sixty-eight defendants - five of whom were “Jehovah’s Witnesses” and sixty-three others were of the same persuasion - met at a hall in the City of Manchester for the purpose of engaging in an information...

This was a consolidation of four different cases wherein defendants have been charged and convicted with violating their respective municipal ordinances (i.e. an ordinance of the City of Los Angeles, California; an ordinance of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; an...

After Ohio police found photographs in petitioner Osborne's home, each of which depicted a nude male adolescent posed in a sexually explicit position, he was convicted of violating Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2907.323(A)(3) , a state statute prohibiting...

In 1984, respondent Oakes took color photographs of his partially nude and physically mature 14-year-old stepdaughter, L. S. He was indicted, tried, and convicted of violating a Massachusetts statute (§ 29A) prohibiting adults from posing or exhibiting...

Three employees of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission were alleged to have been actively participating in their superior's re-election campaign, in violation of Section 818 of Oklahoma's Merit System of Personnel Administration Act. The aforementioned...

Defendant Wilson picketed a building in which the United States Army was located in opposition to the war in Vietnam. When inductees arrived, there was a scuffle. Thereafter, Wilson committed assault and battery on two police officers and used opprobrious...