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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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Constitutional Justice: A Liberal Theory of the Rule of Law

Trevor R. S. Allan - Law - 2003 - 348 pages
...appeal to raw emotions, temporarily inflamed, rather than to reason. Abusive and insulting words that 'by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace' are scarcely conducive to rational debate: such forms of expression, being 'no essential part of any...
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My Suburban Shtetl: A Novel about Life in a Twentieth-century Jewish ...

Robert Rand - Fiction - 2001 - 212 pages
...staccato-like emphasis so that Martin and Abe would understand fully. 'These limited classes of speech 'include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or fybting words — those which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate...
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A Clearing in the Forest: Law, Life, and Mind

Steven L. Winter - Law - 2001 - 466 pages
...the "fighting words" doctrine of Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, which recognized certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which has never been thought to raise any Constitutional problem. These include the lewd and obscene, the...
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Eternally Vigilant: Free Speech in the Modern Era

Lee C. Bollinger, Geoffrey R. Stone - Law - 2003 - 348 pages
...the peace."53 In the course of its opinion, the Court asserted that "[t]here are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention...have never been thought to raise any Constitutional 46. 310 US 88 (1940). 47. Id. at 104-5. 48. 310 US 296 (1941). 49. 314 US 292 (1941). 50. 31 9 US 624...
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Looking Back at Law's Century

Austin Sarat, Bryant G. Garth, Robert A. Kagan - History - 2002 - 474 pages
...analysis by adopting the interpretation of the New Hampshire court that confined the statute to words "which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace" (Chaplinsky, 572). It was the risk of a breach of the peace, the Supreme Court concluded, that permitted...
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The Law of Sexual Harassment: A Critique

Mane Hajdin - Law - 2002 - 280 pages
..."fighting words." Since the 1942 Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire case, the "fighting words," namely the words "which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace"1' have been held to constitute an exception to the First Amendment's general protection of freedom...
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Jacques Derrida: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers

Zeynep Direk, Leonard Lawlor - Philosophy - 2002 - 404 pages
...characteristics that justifies" the constitutional status of fighting words is that such words "by their 159 very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace," Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 315 US 568, 572 (1942). Here Stevens argues, first, that certain kinds...
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The First Amendment and the Media in the Court of Public Opinion

David A. Yalof, Kenneth Dautrich - Law - 2002 - 172 pages
...First Amendment protection because their "very utterance inflicts injury." 9 Included on that list were "the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or 'fighting words.'" 10 Thus, for example, any effort to ban or discriminate against truly "obscene" materials may theoretically...
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Justice in the Risk Society: Challenging and Re-affirming 'Justice' in Late ...

Barbara Hudson - Law - 2003 - 280 pages
...that where words themselves were of an illegal nature: 'lewd, obscene, libellous or profane words, and "fighting words" - those which, by their very utterance...or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace' (Gellman, 1991: 362-3).2 A similar position emerged in the UK, with certain forms of expression illegal...
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Governmental Principles and Statutes on Child Pornography

Walker T. Holliday - Family & Relationships - 2003 - 164 pages
...that is 44 505 US 377(1992). 45 See Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 315 US 568 (1942)( fighting words are "those which by their very utterance inflict injury...tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace"). RAV, supra note 44, 505 US at 391. The Supreme Court has heard arguments in another crossburning case,...
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