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Schenck v. United States 249 U.S. 47 (1919) is a United States Supreme Court decision concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during World War I. A unanimous Supreme Court in a famous opinion by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. concluded that defendants who distributed leaflets to draft-age men urging resistance to induction could be convicted of an attempt to obstruct the draft a criminal offense.