Eastern New Jersey Power Co. v. Commissioner

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• holding that the threatened individuals’ testimony that they were “scared” after being named on a hit list was sufficient to show the victims feared that the threat to kill would be carried out
• declining invitation to overrule Washington’s settled precedent in determining a true threat for First Amendment purposes
• applying an objective reasonable person standard, rather than a subjective intent to threaten, to determine whether a statement is a “true threat”
• holding statements that threatened persons were “scared” was sufficient
• “nothing in Black imposes in all cases an ‘intent to of violence
• “[E]ach boy testified that when he heard that he was on [the defendant’s] ‘hit list,’ he was ‘scared.’ . . . That is sufficient.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).