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" There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise any Constitutional problem. These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting... "
United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ... and Rules ... - Page 258
by United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1952
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Commission on Government Security: Hearings Before a Subcommittee on ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Reorganization - Government publications - 1955 - 1386 pages
...v. United States: "There is no public interest in permitting certain kinds of utterances, the 'ffi and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or fighting words โ€” ii-.ยป* which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate kreadi of the...
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Advertising of Alcoholic Beverages. H.R. 4627

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1956 - 430 pages
...in my State. Our United States Supreme Court declared in 315 US 568 : There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention...of the peace. It has been well observed that such are no essential part of any exposition of ideas, and are of such slight social value as a step to...
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Advertising of Alcoholic Beverages: Hearings Before the Committee on ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - Advertising - 1956 - 430 pages
...in my State. Our United States Supreme Court declared in 315 US 568 : There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention...of the peace. It has been well observed that such are no essential part of any exposition of ideas, and are of such slight social value as a step to...
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Committee Prints

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service - 1957 - 834 pages
...Supreme Court in Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 315 US 568 (1942), said : "There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention...of the peace. It has been well observed that such utterances are no essential part of any exposition of ideas, and are of such slight social value as...
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Television Violence: Hearing of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation - Performing Arts - 2001 - 134 pages
...remark is addressed."132 The Court sustained the conviction. It reasoned: There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention...have never been thought to raise any Constitutional problem.These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or "fighting"...
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Twilight of Liberty: The Legacy of the Aclu

William A. Donohue - Political Science - 2001 - 396 pages
...1942, the high court laid down a standard that is still valid today: There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention...have never been thought to raise any constitutional problems. These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or 'fighting'...
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The First Amendment and Civil Liability

Robert M. O'Neil - Law - 2001 - 208 pages
...prevailed against local sanctions on free, speech grounds โ€” the Court cited "certain well,defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention...have never been thought to raise any Constitutional problems." Along with "the lewd and obscene, the profane. . . .and the insulting or 'fighting' words"...
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The Professional Student Affairs Administrator: Educator, Leader, and Manager

Roger B. Winston, Don G. Creamer, Theodore K. Miller - College student personnel administrators - 2001 - 486 pages
...is directed at the masses and not to a specific individnal. Words directed at a specific individnal "which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace" are "fighting words" and not protected by the First Amendment iChaplinsky r New Hampshire, 1942, p....
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Pluralism and Law

International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. World Congress - Law - 2001 - 402 pages
...Paul,4 the Court extended its prohibition of content discrimination to 'fighting words', defmed as "those which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace',5 It was previously established doctrine that fighting words merited a lesser degree of First...
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A Clearing in the Forest: Law, Life, and Mind

Steven L. Winter - Law - 2003 - 446 pages
...lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or "fighting" words โ€” those words which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace.51 In his influential treatise, Tribe criticized the Court for relying on the "persistent" but...
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