| Existing comment:
Between March and November 1919, Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote two important but very different opinions on free speech. Holmes changed his views in part as a result of conversations with Judge Learned Hand and other legal experts, including Zechariah Chafee. Holmes' dissent and that of fellow Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis in Abrams v US proved deeply influential, setting the standard for judging free speech issues in the twentieth century. |