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Cohen v. California

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Cohen v. California, 403 U.S. 15 (1971), was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with freedom of speech. [1]

39 relations: Breach of the peace, California, California courts of appeal, California Penal Code, Certiorari, Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, Courthouse, Crime, Dissent, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Freedom of speech in the United States, Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties, Harry Blackmun, John Marshall Harlan II, Lawyers' Edition, LexisNexis, List of national founders, List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 403, Los Angeles, Louis Brandeis, Lyric poetry, Malice (law), Marketplace of ideas, Melville Nimmer, Michael T. Sauer, Peace, Profanity, Public morality, Roth v. United States, Supreme Court of California, Supreme Court of the United States, U.S. state, United States v. O'Brien, University of Alabama Press, Vagueness doctrine, Violence, Vulgarity, Whitney v. California.

Breach of the peace

Breach of the peace, or disturbing the peace, is a legal term used in constitutional law in English-speaking countries, and in a wider public order sense in the several jurisdictions of the United Kingdom.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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California courts of appeal

The California courts of appeal are the state intermediate appellate courts in the U.S. state of California.

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California Penal Code

The Penal Code of California forms the basis for the application of criminal law in the American state of California.

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Certiorari

Certiorari, often abbreviated cert. in the United States, is a process for seeking judicial review and a writ issued by a court that agrees to review.

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Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire

Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 315 U.S. 568 (1942), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court articulated the fighting words doctrine, a limitation of the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech.

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Courthouse

A courthouse (sometimes spelled court house) is a building that is home to a local court of law and often the regional county government as well, although this is not the case in some larger cities.

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Crime

In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority.

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Dissent

Dissent is a sentiment or philosophy of non-agreement or opposition to a prevailing idea (e.g., a government's policies) or an entity (e.g., an individual or political party which supports such policies).

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First Amendment to the United States Constitution

The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents Congress from making any law respecting an establishment of religion, prohibiting the free exercise of religion, or abridging the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the right to peaceably assemble, or to petition for a governmental redress of grievances.

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Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.

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Freedom of speech in the United States

In the United States, freedom of speech and expression is strongly protected from government restrictions by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, many state constitutions, and state and federal laws.

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Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties

Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties is a nonfiction book by law professor Christopher M. Fairman about freedom of speech, the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, censorship, and use of the word fuck in society.

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Harry Blackmun

Harry Andrew Blackmun (November 12, 1908March 4, 1999) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1970 until 1994.

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John Marshall Harlan II

John Marshall Harlan (May 20, 1899 – December 29, 1971) was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1955 to 1971.

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Lawyers' Edition

The United States Supreme Court Reports, Lawyers' Edition, or Lawyers' Edition (L. Ed. and L. Ed. 2d in case citations) is an unofficial reporter of Supreme Court of the United States opinions.

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LexisNexis

LexisNexis Group is a corporation providing computer-assisted legal research as well as business research and risk management services.

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List of national founders

The following list of national founding figures is a record, by country, of people who were credited with establishing their nation.

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List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 403

This is a list of all the United States Supreme Court cases from volume 403 of the United States Reports.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Louis Brandeis

Louis Dembitz Brandeis (November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) was an American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939.

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Lyric poetry

Lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person.

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Malice (law)

Malice is a legal term referring to a party's intention to do injury to another party.

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Marketplace of ideas

The marketplace of ideas is a rationale for freedom of expression based on an analogy to the economic concept of a free market.

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Melville Nimmer

Melville Bernard Nimmer (June 6, 1923 – November 23, 1985) was an American lawyer and law professor, renowned as an expert in freedom of speech and United States copyright law.

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Michael T. Sauer

Michael Thomas Sauer (born 1937) is a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge.

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Peace

Peace is the concept of harmony and the absence of hostility.

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Profanity

Profanity is socially offensive language, which may also be called swear words, curse words, cuss words, bad language, strong language, offensive language, crude language, coarse language, foul language, bad words, oaths, blasphemous language, vulgar language, lewd language, choice words, or expletives.

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Public morality

Public morality refers to moral and ethical standards enforced in a society, by law or police work or social pressure, and applied to public life, to the content of the media, and to conduct in public places.

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Roth v. United States

Roth v. United States,, along with its companion case Alberts v. Christopher Sommer, was a landmark case before the United States Supreme Court which redefined the Constitutional test for determining what constitutes obscene material unprotected by the First Amendment.

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Supreme Court of California

The Supreme Court of California is the court of last resort in the courts of the State of California.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.

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U.S. state

A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.

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United States v. O'Brien

United States v. O'Brien,, was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, which ruled that a criminal prohibition against burning a draft card did not violate the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech.

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University of Alabama Press

The University of Alabama Press is a university press founded in 1945 and is the scholarly publishing arm of the University of Alabama.

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Vagueness doctrine

In American constitutional law, a statute is void for vagueness and unenforceable if it is too vague for the average citizen to understand.

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Violence

Violence is defined by the World Health Organization as "the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment, or deprivation," although the group acknowledges that the inclusion of "the use of power" in its definition expands on the conventional understanding of the word.

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Vulgarity

Vulgarity is the quality of being common, coarse, or unrefined.

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Whitney v. California

Whitney v. California,, was a United States Supreme Court decision upholding the conviction of an individual who had engaged in speech that raised a threat to society.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohen_v._California

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