The Right of Free Speech

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The Right of Free Speech

• Freedom of Speech and Expression
• clear and present danger test - Schenck v U.S.
  1919
• bad tendency test - Gitlow v New York 1925
• preferred freedoms test - Brandenburg v Ohio
  1969
• Unprotected Speech
• fighting words - Chaplinsky v New Hampshire
  1942 Terminello v Chicago 1949
• obscenity - Roth v U.S. 1957 Miller v
  California 1973
• slander/libel - New York Times v Sullivan 1964
  Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
• Symbolic Expression
• Tinker v Des Moines ISD 1969 -Texas v Johnson
  1989
• Unacceptable restrictions
• prior restraint
• overbreadth
• least drastic means
• content neutral