ILLINOIS ex rel. MADIGAN v. TELEMARKETING ASSOCIATES, INC.

Whether a federal statute criminalizing depictions of animal cruelty violated the First Amendment.

Whether a New York criminal statute that prohibits persons from knowingly promoting sexual performances by children under the age of 16 by distributing material which depicts such performances violates the First Amendment.

Under the First Amendment as applied to the states, can a licensed pharmacist be disciplined for unprofessional conduct if he "publishes, advertises or promotes, directly or indirectly, in any manner whatsoever, any amount, price, fee, premium, discount, rebate or credit terms . . . for any drugs which may be dispensed only by prescription"?

The Supreme Court held the government cannot punish incendiary speech unless the intent and likely outcome is to cause "imminent lawless action".

"The dispositive question is whether obscenity is utterance within the area of protected speech and press."

Whether the distribution of a racist leaflet, in violation of a state criminal libel statute, was protected under the First Amendment.

Does the First Amendment protect peaceful labor picketing from a state court injunction when the picketing is undertaken to compel a business to enter into an agreement that would violate a valid state law?

Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire was a landmark Supreme Court decision that articulated the fighting words doctrine, a limitation of the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech.