free speech case

C11038
concept

A free speech case is a legal dispute that centers on whether an individual’s or group’s expression is protected under constitutional or statutory guarantees of freedom of speech.

All labels observed (14)

Label Occurrences
freedom of speech case 10
obscenity case 5
free speech case canonical 3

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: free speech case
Generated description
A free speech case is a legal dispute that centers on whether an individual’s or group’s expression is protected under constitutional or statutory guarantees of freedom of speech.

Instances (31)

Instance Via concept surface
United States v. One Book Called Ulysses obscenity case
National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie freedom of speech case
NAACP v. Alabama freedom of association case
Clark v. Community for Creative Non-Violence freedom of speech case
McCullen v. Coakley freedom of speech case
Morse v. Frederick landmark student speech case
Hess v. Indiana freedom of speech case
Virginia v. Black hate speech case
Bethel School District No. 403 v. Fraser landmark student speech case
Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier landmark student speech case
The Right of Free Speech civil liberty
Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire freedom of speech case
Bridges v. California freedom of speech case
Watchtower Bible & Tract Society of New York, Inc. v. Village of Stratton freedom of speech case
Follett v. Town of McCormick freedom of speech case
Jones v. City of Opelika freedom of speech case
Pickering v. Board of Education public employee speech case
Memoirs v. Massachusetts obscenity case
Jacobellis v. Ohio obscenity case
Debs v. United States
Abrams v. United States
Perinçek v. Switzerland freedom of expression case
Hill v. Colorado
Pickering balancing test First Amendment test
Tinker substantial disruption test First Amendment test
Spycatcher trial censorship case
2 Live Crew
surface form: obscenity trial over As Nasty as They Wanna Be
obscenity case
Murdock v. Pennsylvania freedom of speech case
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette civil liberties case
United States v. Dennett obscenity case
Korematsu v. United States civil liberties case