Joseph Fischer v. Karen Thomas

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• noting that the “prevention and punishment” of libel “have never been thought to raise any Constitutional problem”
• noting that the “prevention and punishment” of libel “have never been thought to raise any Constitutional problem”
• \Libelous utterances [are] not . . . within the area of constitutionally protected speech . . . .\
• “There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise any Constitutional problem. These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or ‘fighting’ words . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).