The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.

William O. Douglas (1898-1980) US Supreme Court justice (1939-75)
Dissent, Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia v. Pollack, 343 U.S. 451 (1952) (

The 7-1 ruling held that a streetcar company's playing of the radio was constitutional, and that the PUC could regulate same.

 
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