Feiner v. New York

Feiner (defendant) gave a street speech to a mixed-race crowd containing derogatory remarks about the President and local officials, and urged Black listeners to rise up and take arms for equal rights. Police asked him three times to stop before arresting him for disorderly conduct under New York law. New York's courts upheld his conviction, and the Supreme Court granted certiorari to review whether the arrest violated his First Amendment rights.