Ford v. City of Newport News

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that defendant's lack of civility directed toward police officers could in no reasonable way cause or incite the officers to violence
• holding that persistent protestations of treatment that lack civility are impolite and loud but are not sufficient to establish disorderly conduct
• holding a similar encounter to that in Baldwin was consensual
• throwing out a disorderly conduct conviction on the basis that Virginia section 415 requires a “direct tendency to cause acts of violence” out of “concern for First Amendment free speech protections”
• interpreting an earlier but substantially similar version of the ordinance

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