Case Categories: Immigrants, Aliens, Foreigners, First Amendment Rights of

• Abrams v. United States (1919)

  In Abrams v. U.S., the Supreme Court in 1919 upheld the convictions of several individuals under the 1918 Sedition Act for distributing leaflets opposed to U.S...

• American Academy of Religion v. Chertoff (S.D.N.Y) (2006)

  In American Academy of Religion v. Chertoff (2006), a New York court affirmed the First Amendment rights of scholars who had invited an Islamic scholar to teach...

• Bridges v. Wixon (1945)

  Bridges v. Wixon (1945) ruled that the U.S. could not deport a legal immigrant for his Communist Party affiliation. The Court said legal aliens had First...

• Carlson v. Landon (1952)

  Carlson v. Landon (1952) upheld the detention of resident aliens without bail. The decision split the court over the First Amendment rights of aliens...

• Girouard v. United States (1946)

  In Girouard v. United States, the Supreme Court held that citizenship applicants do not have to swear they will bear arms if they have religious objections...

• Harisiades v. Shaughnessy (1952)

  Harisiades v. Shaughnessy upheld a provision of the Alien Registration Act of 1940, requiring deportation of resident aliens who advocate the unlawful overthrow...

• International Refugee Assistance Project v. Trump (4th Cir.) (2017)

  President Trump signed executive orders suspending immigration from predominantly predominately Muslim nations. Courts said the order violated the First...

• Kimm v. Rosenberg (1960)

  The Court decision in Kimm v. Rosenberg (1960 focused chiefly on the self-incrimination provision of the Fifth Amendment, but it also had implications for First...

• Kleindienst v. Mandel (1972)

  In Kleindienst v. Mandel (1972), the Court held that First Amendment protections did not extend to non-citizens, even if invited to the country for academic...

• Schneiderman v. United States (1943)

  In Schneiderman v. United States, the Supreme Court invoked First Amendment protection of freedom of belief in deciding that the United States could not revoke...

• United States ex rel. Turner v. Williams (1904)

  In 1904, the Supreme Court upheld the planned deportation of anarchist and alien John Turner under the Anarchist Exclusion Act. In Turner v. Williams, the Court...

• United States v. Macintosh (1931)

  United States v. Macintosh (1931) rejected that the First Amendment's protection of conscientious objectors extended to those applying for citizenship...

• United States v. Schwimmer (1929)

  A historic dissent in United States v. Schwimmer (1929) by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. calls for toleration of free thought as a principle of the First Amendment...