Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 3 P7 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | 48 COMMUNIST PARTY USA summit conference with new Soviet leadership in 1955 and HUAC investigations had precipitously tapered off. Time had also given Americans the opportunity to more accurately assess the minimal threat posed to national security by the Communist Party in the United States. Equally important the Supreme Court was under new leadership. Chief Justice Vinson died in 1953 and was replaced earl warren a chief justice who began a legacy of greatly expanding the scope of civil liberties in the United States. Twelve years after Yates the warren court reiterated the First Amendment distinction between lawful subversive advocacy in the abstract and unlawful present incitement. In Brandenburg v. Ohio 395 . 444 89 S. Ct. 1827 23 L. Ed. 2d 430 1969 the Court reversed the conviction of a ku klux klan leader under a state statute that prohibited advocacy of crime and violence as a necessary means to accomplish political reform. Ohio Rev. Code Ann. . The Court held that a state could not forbid advocacy of force or violence except where such advocacy is directed to producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action. FURTHER READINGS Boyer Paul S. 2001. Oxford Companion to United States History. New York Oxford Univ. Press. Bresler Robert J. 2004. Freedom of Association Rights and Liberties Under the Law. Denver CO ABC-CLIO. Hall Kermit L. 2005. Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States. 2d ed. New York Oxford Univ. Press. CROSS REFERENCES Freedom of the Press Freedom of Speech. COMMUNIST PARTY USA Known officially as the communist party usa CPUSA the organization was formed in the united States in 1919 two years after the Russian Revolution had overthrown the monarchy and established the Soviet union. Many American Communists had been members of the socialist party of America but that party s socialist leadership opposed the Russian revolution and expelled those members who supported it. The Communists .
