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PEOPLE vs. Pedro Barba, Et Al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellant, vs. PEDRO BARBA, REYNALDO JASMINEZ, LEONARDO CORDERO, RODOLFO JASMINEZ, RUSTICO SALANDANAN, VICTORIO ALMANZA ROGELIO HERNANDEZ, et al., defendants- appellees.

G.R. Nos. L-27615-16 | 1969-09-30

D E C I S I O N 


FERNANDO, J.: 

It is settled law that peaceful picketing is included in free speech. 1 There is equally a recognition that it is more than just the expression of view or facts connected with a labor dispute, intended to arouse sympathy for the cause of the workingmen. The intent to persuade is there, of course, but it has a coercive aspect as well and is thus not immune to that extent from restrictions and limitations. 

As a matter of fact, certain activities associated with it may at times make a mockery of peaceful pretension and thus lie outside the bounds of the permissible in law. 2 

The precise...