`::No, the ACLU was not directly involved in that case.  The source, Walker, the primary historian of the ACLU devotes nearly two pages to that case (and related issues) because it was a major event in the history of civil liberties in the US ... even though the ACLU was not directly involved.  Not sure if it should stay in this article.  Since the ACLU was not involved in the case, perhaps it should be removed. On the other hand, this article is (for now) serving as the ``history of civil liberties in the United States, after 1920``, so one could argue that it should stay.  Let me know which way to go.      `