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· 2/15/1830

The Fair Play

Citations

  • 8 F. Cas. 957

How courts have described this case

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

  • affirming that the applicable “community standards” for measur- ing whether language is indecent are those of the military community
  • reciting the Article 134, UCMJ, definition of “indecent language” and explaining indecency is contextual
  • identifying several factors that could make language indecent, including “fluctuating community standards of morals and manners, the personal relationship existing between a given speaker and his auditor, motive, intent and the probable effect of the communication”
  • not- ing that whether language is indecent depends on multiple factors including, inter alia, fluctuating community standards, personal relationships, motive, intent, and probable effect
  • “An act of . . . intercourse between consenting adults is not intrinsically indecent.”
  • indicating the French test is the test

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Judges: Betts

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