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

William O. Douglas (1898–1980) American jurist, 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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