Case Categories: Picketing

• Amalgamated Food Employees Union Local 590 v. Logan Valley Plaza (1968)

  In Amalgamated Food Employees v. Logan Valley Plaza (1968), the Court held that state courts could not enjoin peaceful picketing in a private shopping mall...

• American Federation of Labor v. Swing (1941)

  American Federation of Labor v. Swing (1941) held that the state’s policy of forbidding picketing when there was no employer-employee dispute violated the...

• American Radio Association, AFL-CIO v. Mobile Steamship Association (1974)

  American Radio Association v. Mobile Steamship Association (1974) held that an injunction against picketing of foreign ships did not violate the First Amendment...

• Bakery and Pastry Drivers and Helpers Local v. Wohl (1942)

  Bakery and Pastry Drivers and Helpers Local v. Wohl (1942) struck down an injunction against picketers, applying freedom of speech to New York via the 14th...

• Boos v. Barry (1988)

  Boos v. Barry (1988) ruled that a D.C. law violated the First Amendment by banning the display of signs criticizing a foreign government outside that government...

• Building Service Employees International Union v. Gazzam (1950)

  Building Service Employees International Union v. Gazzam (1950) said the First Amendment did not protect picketers who were coercing employers to break state...

• Cafeteria Employees Union v. Angelos (1943)

  Cafeteria Employees Union v. Angelos (1943) ruled a court had violated the First Amendment rights of peaceful picketers in issuing two broad injunctions against...

• Cameron v. Johnson (1965, 1968)

  Cameron v. Johnson (1968) said an anti-picketing law did not violate the First Amendment when taken on its face. It applied to blocking entrances of public...

• Carey v. Brown (1980)

  Carey v. Brown (1980) struck down a law against almost all residential picketing. The Court said the law violated the First Amendment by being content-based...

• Carlson v. California (1940)

  Carlson v. California (1940) struck down an ordinance that prohibited loitering or picketing with the intent to stop people working. Picketing is protected by...

• Carpenters and Joiners Union of America, Local No. 213 v. Ritter's Cafe (1942)

  Carpenters and Joiners Union of America v. Ritter's Cafe (1942) said that a state could bar a labor union's picketing against a restaurant that was not part of...

• Cox v. New Hampshire (1941)

  Cox v. New Hampshire (1941) upheld Jehovah's Witnesses' conviction for parading without a permit, ruling that their First Amendments rights had not been...

• Frisby v. Schultz (1988)

  Frisby v. Schultz (1988) upheld a city ordinance banning picketing in neighborhoods. Dissenting justices said the law suppressed First Amendment-protected...

• Giboney v. Empire Storage and Ice Co. (1949)

  In Giboney v. Empire Storage and Ice Co., the court ruled that First Amendment freedoms do not protect conduct that breaks valid laws...

• Grayned v. City of Rockford (1972)

  In Grayned v. City of Rockford, the Supreme Court ruled that a city’s anti-picketing ordinance was over broad, but their anti-noise ordinance was...

• Hotel and Restaurant Employees International Alliance v. Wisconsin Employment Relations Board (1942)

  Hotel and Restaurant Employees’ International Alliance v. Wisconsin Employment Relations Board (1942) said only peaceful picketing is protected by the First...

• Hudgens v. National Labor Relations Board (1976)

  In Hudgens v. National Labor Relations Board, the Supreme Court ruled that there was no right to exercise free speech in privately owned malls under the First...

• Hughes v. Superior Court of California (1950)

  Hughes v. Superior Court of California Court (1950) said an injunction against picketing to pressure employers to hire on a racial basis didn't violate the...

• International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers v. National Labor Relations Board (1951)

  International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers v. National Labor Relations Board affirmed a decision that a union’s peaceful picketing had illegally induced...

• International Brotherhood of Teamsters Union v. Hanke (1950)

  In International Brotherhood of Teamsters Union v. Hanke (1950), the Court sustained an injunction against the picketing of a self-employer’s place of...

• International Brotherhood of Teamsters Union v. Vogt (1957)

  International Brotherhood of Teamsters Union v. Vogt (1957) reaffirmed that some state limits on picketing did not infringe upon First Amendment freedom of...

• Milk Wagon Drivers Union v. Meadowmoor (1941)

  Milk Wagon Drivers Union v. Meadowmoor (1941), upheld an injunction by an Illinois court against peaceful picketing, which the state court believed was related...

• National Labor Relations Board v. Fruit and Vegetable Packers (1964)

  National Labor Relations Board v. Fruit and Vegetable Packers (1964) protected the rights of picketers using the the NLRA instead of First Amendment protections...

• New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co., Inc. (1938)

  In New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co., Inc. (1938), the Supreme Court ruled that pickets that were a peaceful and orderly dissemination of information...

• Police Department of Chicago v. Mosley (1972)

  Police Department of Chicago v. Mosley (1972) held that the government could not, under the First Amendment, selectively exclude speakers based on the content...

• Senn v. Tile Layers Protective Union (1937)

  Senn v. Tile Layers Protective Union (1937) upheld a state law that allowed peaceful picketing. Peaceful picketing is protected by the First Amendment...

• Snyder v. Phelps (2011)

  Snyder v. Phelps (2011) ruled that the First Amendment prohibited the pressing of civil charges upon a church who picketed the funeral of a slain Marine...

• Thornhill v. Alabama (1940)

  Thornhill v. Alabama (1940) found that a law that made it illegal for a person to “loiter” around or “picket” a business denied the First Amendment...

• Tory v. Cochran (2005)

  Tory v. Cochran (2005) vacated and remanded a decision that had issued a permanent injunction against Tory, who claimed the injunction infringed on his First...

• United Association of Journeymen Plumbers and Steamfitters v. Graham (1953)

  The Supreme Court in 1953 upheld an injunction preventing union members from picketing in front of a school that used non-union members, reasoning that the...