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  "subject_type": "incident",
  "subject_id": 225,
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  "value": "Judge Anderson rules the case belongs in Indiana",
  "statement": "Judge Albert Barnes Anderson ruled that any offense would have occurred in Indiana rather than the nation's capital, so the case could only be tried in Indiana.",
  "attribution": null,
  "source_id": 600,
  "evidence_quote": "his more important contribution for First Amendment purposes was in ruling that if any offense had occurred, it had taken place in Indiana rather than in the nation’s capital and thus could only be prosecuted in Indiana",
  "evidence_date": "2009-01-01",
  "method": "outlet_report",
  "verified_at": "2026-09-26",
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  "url": "https://thewaronnews.com/claims/968",
  "subject_url": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/1909-us-panama-canal-libel-prosecutions",
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    "url": "https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/united-states-v-smith/",
    "final_url": "https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/united-states-v-smith-ind/",
    "title": "United States v. Smith (Ind.) (1909)",
    "publisher": "The First Amendment Encyclopedia, Middle Tennessee State University",
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