# Police Department of Chicago v. Mosley

> Supreme Court of the United States · June 26, 1972 · 408 U.S. 92

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/8980925

## Case

- **Full name:** POLICE DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO v. MOSLEY
- **Court:** Supreme Court of the United States
- **Decided:** June 26, 1972
- **Citations:** 408 U.S. 92
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Burger
- **Judges:** Blackmun, Brennan, Burger, Douglas, Marshall, Powell, Rehnquist, Stewart, White
- **Cited by:** 503 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that municipality could not exempt labor picketing from a general prohibition on picketing at a school
- holding that ordinance which impermissibly distinguished between labor picketing and all other peaceful picketing violates the Equal Protection Clause

## Opinion text

Mr. Chief Justice Burger,
concurring.
I join the Court’s opinion but with the reservation that some of the language used in the discussion of the First *103 Amendment could, if read out of context, be misleading. Numerous holdings of this Court attest to the fact that the First Amendment does not literally mean that we “are guaranteed the right to express any thought, free from government censorship.” This statement is subject to some qualifications, as for example those of Roth v. United States, 354 U. S. 476 (1957); Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 315 U. S. 568 (1942). See also New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U. S. 254 (1964).

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