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In Re John M.

Citations

  • 36 P.3d 772
  • 201 Ariz. 424
  • 363 Ariz. Adv. Rep. 22
  • 2001 Ariz. App. LEXIS 188

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that racial slurs were \likely to provoke a violent reaction when addressed to an ordinary citizen of African-American descent\
  • holding that racial slurs were ‘‘likely to provoke a violent reaction when addressed to an ordinary citizen of African-American descent’’
  • upholding disorderly conduct adjudication where juvenile shouted racial epithets constituting fighting words at a specific individual
  • looking to “established and widely used” dictionaries to define “gesture” when legislature did not provide definition
  • appellant leaning out of a car window and yelling “fuck you, you god damn n****r” uttered fighting words
  • ‘the term is generally regarded as virtually taboo because of the legacy of racial hatred that underlies the history of its use among whites’ . . .

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Judges: Timmer, Gemmill, Fidel

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