Unprotected Speech
Media Ethics
Important Cases
Legal System
Potpurri
100
It was the type of speech at issue in Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire.
What is fighting words?
100
It is the type of ethical provision that tells you not to do something.
What is proscriptive?
100
This 2002 case established the test for true threats in the United States.
What is Planned Parenthood v. ACLA?
100
It is the name of the branch of government that consists of the courts.
What is the Judiciary Branch?
100
It is the source of law designed to provide a remedy when money alone won't do.
What is the law of equity?
200
The CERD requires that all signatories pass laws prohibiting this type of speech.
What is hate speech?
200
It is the term for those ethicists who focus on the common values among media cultures.
What is universalist?
200
This 1992 case reiterated that hate speech is protected by the First Amendment unless it rose to the level of fighting words.
What is RAV v. City of St. Paul?
200
It is the name of the highest court in Qatar.
What is the Court of Cassation?
200
It is the other name for content-neutral restrictions on speech.
What are time, place, manner restrictions?
300
It is advocacy speech directed at producing imminent lawless action that is likely to do so.
What is incitement speech?
300
It is the term for the audience-accepted expectation of behavior by mass media practitioners in a given set of circumstances that draw upon cues and guidance from history, cultural customs, society, politics, economics, or theology.
What is contextual ethics?
300
This 1973 case established the current test for obscenity in the United States.
What is Miller v. California?
300
It is the type of court you go to after you have lost your case the first time.
What is an appellate court?
300
It is the name for the first 10 amendments to the U.S. constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
400
It is the type of unprotected speech most closely related to commercial speech.
What is false advertising?
400
It is the ethical ideology that assumes the best possible outcome can always be achieved by following universal moral rules.
What is an absolutist?
400
This 1969 case established the current test for incitement speech in the United States.
What is Brandenburg v. Ohio?
400
It is the type of decision written by the judges who agree with the outcome of a case but not the reasoning.
What is What is a concurring opinion?
400
It is the article of the Qatar constitution that protects freedom of the press.
What is Article 48?
500
It is a type of speech that causes injury to reputation that is no longer unprotected in the United States.
What is defamation or libel?
500
He is the philosopher behind the moral imperative.
Who is Immanuel Kant?
500
This 1925 case established that the First Amendment protections applied to the state government because of the 14th Amendment.
What is Gitlow v. New York?
500
It is the Latin phrase that encourages judicial restraint through the reliance on precedent.
What is stare decisis?
500
They are the two types of speech that receive intermediate First Amendment protection.
What are commercial speech and indecency?
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