Case Categories: Travel, Denial of Passports

• Aptheker v. Secretary of State (1964)

  Aptheker v. Secretary of States (1964) overturned a law allowing the state department to deny passports to American Communists because it violated the First...

• Haig v. Agee (1981)

  Haig v. Agee (1981) raised and answered First Amendment questions regarding the right to travel in order to prevent speech deemed harmful to national security...

• Zemel v. Rusk (1965)

  Zemel v. Rusk (1965) refused to interpret the First Amendment so as to grant a citizen an absolute right of travel to other countries to assess the effects of U...