Sentences with phrase «immediate breach of the peace»

These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or «fighting» words — those which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace.

The law said a person commits the offense if he uses profane or vulgar language, or makes an offensive gesture or display that «tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace.»

Douglas» lawyer had argued that his client could be convicted of disorderly conduct only if his requests to tickle constituted «fighting words,» which he described as words that «by their very utterance inflict injury or trend to incite an immediate breach of the peace.»

The one exception would be language that falls outside the protection of the First Amendment, «fighting words which by their very utterance tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace.»

These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or «fighting» words — those which, by their very utterance, inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace.

While that right is not absolute and some words «by their very utterance» cause injury or incite an immediate breach of peace, and do not receive constitutional protection, (there is the old adage you do not have the right to shout fire in a crowded movie theater).