Fighting words are words meant to incite violence such that they may not be protected free speech under the First Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court first ...

The fighting words doctrine, in United States constitutional law, is a limitation to freedom of speech as protected by the First Amendment to the United States ...

In this case, the court said that fighting words are those that just by saying them can cause violence. It ruled that such words are not protected by the First ...

Amdt1.7.5.5 Fighting Words · any offensive, derisive or annoying word · fighting words · have a direct tendency to cause acts of violence by the person to whom, ...

28 июл. 2021 г. · Georgia's "Fighting Words" statute may allow police to charge someone with a crime for using insults, profanity, or abusive language.

15 февр. 2017 г. · These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or “fighting” words — those which by their very utterance ...

1 янв. 2009 г. · The fighting words doctrine allows government to limit speech when it is likely to incite immediate violence or retaliation by the recipients of the words.

23 дек. 2021 г. · Fighting words are written or spoken words intended to incite hatred or violence from their target. Specific definitions, freedoms, and ...

The Court unanimously sustained a conviction under a state law proscribing “any offensive, derisive or annoying word” addressed to any person in a public place.