 While it is commonly thought that Darrow "switched sides" to represent Debs, a myth repeated by Irving Stone's biography, "Clarence Darrow For the Defense", he had in fact resigned from the railroad earlier, after the death of his mentor William Goudy.A Supreme Court case decision, "In re Debs", later upheld the right of the federal government to issue the injunction.At the time of his arrest for mail obstruction, Debs was not yet a socialist.