Eastland v. United States Servicemen’s Fund

1. This case is philosophically in serious tension with United States v. Watkins? How does the majority reconcile the two cases?

2. If the first amendment interests of communists were threatened in Watkins, why aren't the first amendment interests of anti-war protestors equally threatened here?

3. What is the point of the concurrence? Sometimes, by the way, I think the main point of concurrences is to get future law students to focus more carefully on the actual majority holding.

Supreme Court of the United States

421 U.S. 491, 95 S. Ct. 1813, 44 L. Ed. 2d 324, 1975 U.S. LEXIS 65, SCDB 1974-104

No. 73-1923

1975-05-27

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