Unprotected speech Flashcards
1
Q
Fighting words
A
Provoke an ordinary person to an immediate violent response
2
Q
Incitement to crime
A
Seeks to produce imminent lawless action
Likely to produce such action
(Not mere encouragement)
3
Q
Defamation
A
False statement that harms a persons reputation
Public figures must show actual malice (knowledge or reckless disregard for falsity)
4
Q
True threats
A
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
5
Q
Obscenity
A
- 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 - Lacks serious artistic literary political value