United States v. Priest’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
December 1977
most recently cited
1 federal appellate ·
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Applies 10 U.S.C. § 867
Most-quoted passages
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“the term “disloyalty” means not being true to or not being faithful to an authority to whom respect, obedience, or allegiance is due. * * * * * * The court is advised that statements critical of the policies of government are not in and of themselves disloyal and that robust and even harsh, impolite, or unpleasantly sharp criticism of public officials is allowable and is not in and of itself disloyal to the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[c]onsidering the totality of the instructions, we are satisfied they avoid the ambiguity of those in Harvey and Gray and present no reasonable risk that the court members predicated their finding that each Newsletter “in its entirety” was disloyal to the United States upon a finding that parts of the publication were disloyal to the military or a public official.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“disloyalty charged here is to the United States and not disloyalty to any other person or institution such as the Secretary of Defense or the United States Navy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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