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The Legal Right to Picket

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Irwin Kramer: The boss may not like it very much, but these employees are exercising their first amendment right.

Unknown Speaker: A right giving them, freedom of speech and the freedom to gather together in a public place to protest in this case what they claim to be mistreatment by their employer. The boss may think it stinks but the Supreme Court of the United States thinks that picketing is an exercise of freedom of expression. Unless they resort to violence or harm public safety, a ban on picketing can be justified only where the clear danger of substantive evils affords no opportunity to test the merits of ideas in the market of public opinion.

Irwin Kramer: The employer may disagree, but it can do much about it. If they are not interfering with their job, United States Supreme Court says all is fair game. For the Legal Television Network I am Irwin Kramer.
Irwin Kramer: The boss may not like it very much, but these employees are exercising their first amendment right. Unknown Speaker: A right giving them, freedom of speech and the freedom to gather together in a public place to protest in this case what they claim to be mistreatment by their... click to read more


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