Buddy Bell v. James Keating

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “alarm” is “conjugate with the term ‘disorderly conduct,’ ” and annoyance may even be less demanding
• holding a plaintiff has standing to bring a claim in federal court only if he can demonstrate that he has suffered an injury in fact caused by defendants, and the remedy he seeks is likely to be address the injury
• “silencing otherwise protected speech because it annoys is tantamount to ‘suspending unconditionally the right of assembly and free speech.’ ”
• “The existence of the statute constitutes the government’s commitment to prosecute in accordance with it and, thus, a concrete prospect of future harm for one who would flout it.”
• requiring a showing of a particular- ized chilling effect
• requiring a showing of a particular- ized chilling effect

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