Constitutional Law November 16, 2004

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Constitutional Law November 16, 2004

• Freedom of Expression
• Content Based Regulation
• Illegal Advocacy Hostile Audiences
• Introduction
• Schenck
• Holmes Brandeis
• Brandenberg
• Hostile Audiences
• Fighting Words Offensive Speech
• Defamation Related Issues
• Commercial Speech
• Obscenity

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Recap

• The First Amendment
• Historical Overview
• First Amendment Theories
• Categories
• Content Based and Content Neutral
• Low Value Speech
• Form of Regulation

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3. Form of Regulation

• Overbreadth (link)
• Protected and Unprotected Speech
• Facial Challenge 3d Party Standing
• Vagueness (link)
• Relation to DP Doctrine
• Relation to Overbreadth
• Prior Restraint
• Licensing
• Injunctions

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A. Illegal Advocacy1. Introduction

• Is Freedom of Speech Absolute?
• Case 1 Criminal Conspiracy
• Case 2 Direct Incitement
• Case 3 Ineffective Incitement
• Case 4 Abstract Theory
• Factors
• Intent
• General or Specific Law

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2. Schenck

• Espionage Act Conviction
• Antiwar Speech
• Draft Obstruction
• Free Speech Not Absolute
• Falsely shouting fire in a theater
• Consider Text
• Clear and Present Danger Test
• On the Facts?
• Compare Alternatives

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3. Holmes Brandeis

• Other Espionage Act Cases
• Holmes Decisions Upholding
• Abrams Dissent (No C P Danger)
• Syndicalism Cases
• Statute Targeting Advocacy
• Application of Reasonableness Test
• Holmes/Brandeis Opinions

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4. Bandenburg

• KKK Rally
• Test (link)
• Intent
• Effect
• Imminence
• Statute Invalid on Its Face
• Application of Test
• Hess
• Claiborne Hardware

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5. Hostile Audiences

• The Hostile Audience Problem
• Application of C P Danger Test
• Terminello
• Cantwell
• Feiner
• Hecklers Veto
• Subsequent Cases
• Relation to Fighting Words

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Overbreadth
Scope of Statute
Protected Speech
Speaker
Unprotected Speech
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Vagueness
Scope of Statute
Protected Speech
Speaker
Unprotected Speech
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Brandenburg Test
. . . The constitutional guarantees of free
speech and free press do not permit a state to
forbid advocacy of the use of force or of law
violation except where such advocacy is 1
directed to inciting or producing imminent
lawless action and 2 likely to incite or
produce such action.
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