Learn about the case — historical background and documents
Historical Documents
Writ of injunction, U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illinois, July 2, 1894
Correspondence of Attorney General Richard Olney
Grand jury charge of Judge Grosscup, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, July 10, 1894
United States v. Debs et al., decision of the U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illinois, December 14, 1894
Writ of habeas corpus
Lyman Trumbull brief, of counsel for petitioner, in the Supreme Court of the United States, March 25, 1895
Clarence Darrow brief and arguments for petitioner, in the Supreme Court of the United States, March 25, 1894
Oral argument of Hon. Richard Olney, Attorney General, in the Supreme Court of the United States
Opinion of the Supreme Court, In re Debs, Petitioner
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act (excerpt)
Recommendations of the United States Strike Commission
Eugene V. Debs to Jean Daniel Debs, January 14, 1895
Eugene V. Debs on the role of the courts
Norris-LaGuardia Act, March 23, 1932 (excerpt)
The Debs Case: Labor, Capital, and the Federal Courts of the 1890s