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- Terminiello v. Chicago (1949) Arthur Terminiello was a defrocked Catholic priest whose anti-Semitic views, regularly expressed in newspapers and on the radio, gave him a small but vocal following in the 1930s and '40s.
- Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969) No organization has been more aggressively or justifiably pursued on the grounds of hate speech than the Ku Klux Klan, but the arrest of an Ohio Klansman named Clarence Brandenburg on criminal syndicalism charges, based on a KKK speech that recommended overthrowing the government, was overturned.
- National Socialist Party v. Skokie (1977) When the National Socialist Party of America, better known as Nazis, was declined a permit to speak in Chicago, the organizers sought a permit from the suburban city of Skokie, where one-sixth of the town's population was made up of families that had survived the Holocaust.
- R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul (1992) In 1990, a St. Paul, Minn., teen burned a makeshift cross on the lawn of an African-American couple. He was subsequently arrested and charged under the city's Bias-Motivated Crime Ordinance, which banned symbols that "[arouses] anger, alarm or resentment in others on the basis of race, color, creed, religion or gender."
Share. Is Hate Speech Legal? There is no “hate speech” exception to the First Amendment. So, many Americans wonder: Is hate speech legal?
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Jan 4, 2021 · In Cohen v. California, Justice Harlan wrote that offensive speech must be protected because “one man’s vulgarity is another’s lyric.” [14] On the topic of hate speech specifically, the Supreme Court has decided a variety of cases outlining exactly what is, and what is not, protected. [15]
Dec 31, 2015 · Black, a seminal 2003 Supreme Court decision on cross-burning, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor described “true threats” as statements in which “the speaker means to communicate a serious...
Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969), is a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court interpreting the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Court held that the government cannot punish inflammatory speech unless that speech is "directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action".
While "hate speech" is not a legal term in the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that most of what would qualify as hate speech in other western countries is legally protected speech under the First Amendment.
Oct 21, 2022 · Do Justices Defend the Speech They Hate? An Analysis of In-Group Bias on the US Supreme Court. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 October 2022. Lee Epstein , Christopher M. Parker and. Jeffrey A. Segal. Article. Metrics. Get access. Cite. Rights & Permissions. Abstract.
