Case that upheld the New Hampshire statute which punished the use of addressing any offensive, derisive or annoying word to any other person who is lawfully in any street or public place and held that the fighting words doctrine could be used to impose a prior restraint on an individuals symbolic speech activities.

Case that upheld the New Hampshire statute which punished the use of addressing any offensive, derisive or annoying word to any other person who is lawfully in any street or public place and held that the fighting words doctrine could be used to impose a prior restraint on an individuals symbolic speech activities.










a. Brandenburg vs. Ohio
b. Chaplinksi vs New Hampshire
c. Texas vs. Johnson
d. Village of Skokie vs National Socialist Party















Answer: B


Freedom of Expression

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