· 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
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- 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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