Toledo Newspaper Co. v. United States
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Nye addressed statutory construction and did not decide the full constitutional reach of contempt power. All 25 flagged citations have been read. The Constitution Annotated lists Nye as the overruling decision.
25 citations to Toledo Newspaper Co. v. United States sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.
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The Supreme Court overruled Toledo Newspaper's rule that conduct away from the court could be punished summarily for contempt when it tended to obstruct justice.
Nye v. United States · Supreme Court of the United States · filed
And it would follow that under the “reasonable tendency” rule of Toledo Newspaper Co. v. United States, supra, the court below did not err in affirming the judgment of conviction. But for the reasons stated that decision must be overruled.
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