Document Type
Article
Repository Date
2010
Keywords
Freedom of speech, Freedom of religion, First amendment, Pragmatic indeterminacy, Harmful speech, Tribe, Pragmatic indeterminacy, Pornography regulation, Obscene materials, Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co., Miller vs. California, Hustler Magazine v. Falwell, Roth vs. United States, Lower court decision-making, Supreme Court
Subject Categories
Constitutional Law | Law
Abstract
I advocate two propositions in this Essay: the constitutional law of at least one category of content regulation of free speech is indeterminate, and recognition of this indeterminacy has been and ought to continue to be the Supreme Court's decisional basis for protecting speech against content regulation. Milkovich is worth examining at some length, not only because of the Court's failure to come up with general guidelines (after all, pragmatic indeterminacy predicts that failure!), but also because what the Court did say cannot even guide the lower court on remand.
Repository Citation
D'Amato, Anthony, "Harmful Speech and the Culture Of Indeterminacy" (2010). Faculty Working Papers. 75.
https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/facultyworkingpapers/75
