Unprotected speech Flashcards

1
Q

Fighting words

A

Provoke an ordinary person to an immediate violent response

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2
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Incitement to crime

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Seeks to produce imminent lawless action
Likely to produce such action
(Not mere encouragement)

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3
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Defamation

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False statement that harms a persons reputation

Public figures must show actual malice (knowledge or reckless disregard for falsity)

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4
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True threats

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Communicated Serious intent to commit unlawful violence to a specific individual or group

Intent to carry out threat is irrelevant
About fear it creates and actual possibility

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5
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Obscenity

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  1. What the average person using modern standards would regard as appealing to excessively sexual interests
    2.Depicts or describes sexual conduct in a patently offensive way
  2. Lacks serious artistic literary political value
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