Chilk v. City of New York

How courts have described this case

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

• ‘[a]s certain language is acceptable in more situations, the borders of the fighting words exception contract’
• defendant’s threat s to retrieve a gun and “shoot” and “fucking kill” water company employees on his property were not fighting words
• defendant’s threat s to retrieve a gun and “shoot” and “fucking kill” water company employees on his property were not fighting words
• ‘‘[t]he first amendment bars the states from criminaliz- ing pure speech, unless that speech falls into one of a few constitutionally unprotected categories’’ (emphasis omitted)
• ‘‘[t]o qualify as unprotected fighting words, the speech must be likely to provoke an imminent violent response from the [addressee]’’ (emphasis in original; internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).