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  "value": "Denied mailing on Espionage Act grounds",
  "statement": "Judge Learned Hand held that stopping short of urging readers to break the law should not be treated as an attempt to cause a violation of it.",
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  "evidence_quote": "If one stops short of urging upon others that it is their duty or their interest to resist the law, it seems to me one should not be held to have attempted to cause its violation.",
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    "url": "https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/masses-publishing-co-v-patten-s-d-n-y/",
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    "title": "Masses Publishing Co. v. Patten (S.D.N.Y.) (1917)",
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