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· 9/12/1985

City of Billings v. Batten

Citations

  • 705 P.2d 1120
  • 218 Mont. 64
  • 1985 Mont. LEXIS 886

How courts have described this case

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

  • upholding disorderly conduct conviction of man yelling for several minutes accompanied by taunts of “fight me, hit me”
  • defendant’s calling his neighbor a “communist government worker, no good son-of-a-bitch, chickenshit, and motherfucker” and saying, “Fight me. Hit me. You have a golf club. Come on. I want to fight you,” was unprotected “fighting words”

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Judges: Turnage, Harrison, Weber, Morrison, Gulbrandson

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