http://www.oyez.org/cases/1901-1939/1919/ U.S. Supreme Court Cases, presented by The Oyez Project (www.oyez.org) en-us <p>The defendants were convicted on the basis of two leaflets they printed and threw from windows of a building. One leaflet signed "revolutionists" denounced the sending of American troops to Russia. The second leaflet, written in Yiddish, denounced the war and US efforts to impede the Russian Revolution. The defendants were charged and convicted for inciting resistance to the war effort and for urging curtailment of production of essential war material. They were sentenced to 20 years in prison.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1901-1939/1919/1919_316/ <p>In December 1916, the United States and Great Britain entered into a treaty to protect a number of migratory birds in the U.S. and Canada. Congress passed the Migratory Bird Treaty Act in 1918 in order to facilitate enforcement of the treaty. When Ray P. Holland, the U.S. Game Warden, threatened to arrest citizens of Missouri for violating the Act, the state of Missouri challenged the treaty.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1901-1939/1919/1919_609/