Grayned v. City of Rockford
- Decided
- June 26, 1972
- Docket
- 70-5106
- Status
- Published
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
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What later courts said
- concluding that, although the First Amendment protected wearing a jacket saying "fuck the draft," Cohen v. California, 403 U.S. 15, 91 S.Ct. 1780, 29 L.Ed.2d 284 (1971 — Heather Wallace, a Minor, by Her Mother and Next Friend, Phyllis Wallace v. The Batavia School District 101, a Municipal Corporation, and James Cliffe (1995)
- holding that the phrase “tends to disturb” the peace in a city noise ordinance was not unconstitutionally vague — Roark & Hardee L.P. v. City of Austin (2005)
- holding that a statute’s words, even when “marked by flexibility and reasonable breadth, rather than meticulous specificity,” are clear based on “what the ordinance as a whole prohibits” — United States v. David Bronstein (2017)
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Grayned v. City of Rockford, 408 U.S. 104 (1972)Read the full opinion
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