Opinion

Pittsburgh Press Co. v. Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations

  • 413 U.S. 376
  • 93 S. Ct. 2553
  • 37 L. Ed. 2d 669
  • 1973 U.S. LEXIS 150
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Filed
Oct 9, 1973
Status
Published
Author
Blackmun
On the bench
Powell, Bkennan, White, Marshall, Rehnquist, Burger, Douglas, Stewart, Blackmun
Cited by
571 cases

stating the Supreme Court “has never held that all injunctions are impermissible” and noting that “[t]he special vice of a prior restraint is that communication will be suppressed . . . before an adequate determination that it is unprotected by the First Amendment"

How later courts described this case

  • stating the Supreme Court “has never held that all injunctions are impermissible” and noting that “[t]he special vice of a prior restraint is that communication will be suppressed . . . before an adequate determination that it is unprotected by the First Amendment"
  • holding that discriminatory advertisements are illegal commercial speech entitled to no First Amendment protection
  • holding that speech involving a “proposal of possible employment” is commercial speech
  • holding that ordinance making it unlawful to “aid” sexually discriminatory employment practices could be constitutionally applied to bar newspaper advertisements for sex-designated employment

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

Mr. Justice Blackmun,

dissenting.

I dissent substantially for the reasons stated by Mr. Justice Stewart in his opinion. But I do not subscribe to the statements contained in that paragraph of his opinion which begins on p. 402 and ends on p. 403.

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