Mercer v. Winston

How courts have described this case

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• limiting the curse-and-abuse statute to the “fighting” words holding of Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 315 U.S. 568, 573-74, 62 S.Ct. 766, 770, 86 L.Ed. 1031 (1942)
• interpreting former Code § 18.1-255, now Code § 18.2-416, which prohibits the use of abusive language
• discussing Code § 18.1-255, now Code § 18.2-416, prohibiting use of abusive language
• the Virginia statute “addresses itself to a direct confrontation of individuals in which one . . . uses violent abusive language concerning the other”
• interpreting former Code § 18.1-255
• interpreting former Code § 18.1-255

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).