Talk:National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie

message: This page reads like a biased highschool essay.
151.185.60.250 (talk) 00:30, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It certainly does, and whole section are uncited. I've tagged and removed some POV. if someone disputes that they can either cite it or discuss why the tags should go off.Lihaas (talk) 14:56, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  clean up 

message: Isn't skokie the plaintiff--> meaning that the order should be reversed. anyone know how to do that?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Crudnick (talk • contribs) 00:05, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  case questions 

message: I just got done reading the opinion and the dissent.  As I read it the 5-4 decision was about whether or not the federal district court was correct to intervene, however, the language seems to stipulate that indeed, their First Amendment rights were injured.  But IANAL, so I really cannot claim to know how the court communicates in such cases.  "I do not disagree with the Court that the provisions of the injunction issued by the Circuit Court of Cook County are extremely broad, and I would expect that if the Illinois appellate courts follow cases such as Freedman v. Maryland, 380 U.S. 51 (1965), and Nebraska Press Assn. v. Stuart, 423 U.S. 1319 (1975), relied upon by the Court, the injunction will be at least substantially modified by them." NathanZook (talk) 09:09, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was it really a 5-4 ruling? 

message: Here are three new sources that could be incorporated into this page. If anyone has any other suggestions, please include below.
Downs, Donald Alexander. Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community, and the First Amendment. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1985. 
Neier, Aryeh. Defending My Enemy: American Nazis, the Skokie Case, and the Risks of Freedom. 1st ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1979.
Strum, Philippa. When the Nazis Came to Skokie: Freedom for Speech We Hate. [Lawrence, Kan.]: University Press of Kansas, 1999.
Schoe043 (talk) 18:52, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ideas for additional sources 

message: I added a new paragraph (the top one) to this section and it has some overlap with the existing paragraph for that section. I did not combine them because the pre-existing paragraph was very light on citations and will need to be fact-checked, but I wasn't sure how to go about that; it relates back to a question I have about the order in which the cases proceeded. I do not have enough knowledge to really understand how the court system works, so I simply left the paragraphs as they are now.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Schoe043 (talk • contribs) 02:57, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Preceding lower court cases section 

message: I question the recent edit of the introductory paragraph to label NSPA v Skokie a "landmark" decision. That entire category is highly subjective, absolutely a matter of opinion, and I question it generally as a Wikipedia concept except perhaps for the handful of most impactful or doctrine-defining Supreme Court decisions. (That discussion, however, is to be pursued on a different page.) Even assuming the category is valid in general, the legal principles established by the Supreme Court's per curiam Skokie opinion are not comparable in importance to those of decisions generally considered "landmarks." Certainly the Skokie affair is important in the history of U.S. civil liberties and retains a place in popular lore concerning free speech battles (and the history of the ACLU). The court decision is likewise certainly important enough to warrant an article. But "landmark decision"? I think not. PDGPA (talk) 14:26, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Landmark" decision? 

message: it is not written at the level of a general encylopedia; it is legal jargon (per curiam)
It shoiuld start with a sentence aboout the broader issue, the right of Nazis to march thru a village full of holocaust survivors, and how this became a major cause celebfre and divisie issue for free speech advocates  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.245.17.105 (talk) 14:58, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: intro sucks