Johnson-Price v. Walley

How courts have described this case

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• finding fighting words where defendant repeatedly cursed police officer and store detective and threatened store detective, and uproar occurred in front of other customers who congregated to watch
• finding fighting words where defendant repeatedly cursed police officer and store detective and threatened store detective, and uproar occurred in front of other customers who congregated to watch
• defendant’s language could have aroused violent reac- tion from store detective, to whom it was addressed, as well as customers
• ‘‘speech can be proscribed not only when accompanied by actual physical conduct, but also when it can be identified as fighting words’’
• speech may be proscribed under disorderly conduct statute [1] when accompanied by actual physical conduct or [2] when identified as fighting words that portend imminent physical violence
• \fighting words ... portend imminent physical violence\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).