Brockway v. Shepherd

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• determining, in that case, that the act of raising one’s middle finger toward another was “not sexual in nature” and instead was “intended to express disrespect for and to offend” the person at whom it was directed
• “[U]sing a base term for sex does not change the disrespectful, offensive communication into one that appeals to the prurient interest. It would be a rare person who would be ‘turned on’ by the display of a middle finger or the language it represents . . . .”
• discussing the term “obscene” and Pennsylvania’s disorderly conduct statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).