Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization

Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization
Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 27–28, 1939; Decided June 5, 1939
Full case name	Frank Hague, Mayor, et al. v. Committee for Industrial Organization, et al.
Citations	307 U.S. 496 (more) 59 S. Ct. 954; 83 L. Ed. 1423; 1939 U.S. LEXIS 1067; 1 Lab. Cas. (CCH) P17,048; 4 L.R.R.M. 501
Prior history	Certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Certiorari, 306 U.S. 624, to review a decree which modified and affirmed a decree of injunction, 25 F.2d 127, in a suit brought by individuals, unincorporated labor organizations, and a membership corporation, against officials of a municipality to restrain alleged violations of constitutional rights of free speech and of assembly.
Holding
	The Court held that Hague's ban on political meetings violated the First Amendment right to freedom of assembly, and so the ordinances were void.
Court membership
	Chief Justice; Charles E. Hughes
	Associate Justices; James C. McReynolds · Pierce Butler; Harlan F. Stone · Owen J. Roberts; Hugo Black · Stanley F. Reed; Felix Frankfurter · William O. Douglas
Case opinions
Concurrence	Roberts, joined by Black
Concurrence	Stone, joined by Reed
Concurrence	Hughes
Dissent	McReynolds
Dissent	Butler
	Frankfurter and Douglas took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
	U.S. Const. amend. I

Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization, 307 U.S. 496 (1939), is a US labor law case decided by the United States Supreme Court.

Facts

In Jersey City, New Jersey, Mayor Frank Hague had in 1937 used a city ordinance to prevent labor meetings in public places and stop the distribution of literature pertaining to the Committee for Industrial Organization's cause. He referred to the CIO as "communist."

District and circuit courts ruled in favor of the CIO, which brought the suit against the mayor for these actions and which was represented by Morris L. Ernst, Spaulding Frazer, Lee Pressman and Benjamin Kaplan. Hague appealed to the Supreme Court which ruled against him and held that Hague's ban on political meetings violated the First Amendment right to freedom of assembly, and so the ordinances were void.

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