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	NATIONAL SECURITY for the 21st Century
		Those who believe it is illegal to write computer viruses hold that the availability of viruses incites lawless action, and therefore writing the viruses is not protected under free speech.
		The "speech directed to incite imminent lawless action" exception to the right to free speech may not apply either.
		Ohio, makes it clear that mere advocacy of an illegal action is not illegal where incitement to imminent lawless action is. For example, writing a "how to" manual on building a bomb is protected speech because it does not cause the immediate infliction of harm.
	www.library.gatech.edu /security/virus.htm (1291 words)

	Imminent lawless action
		Imminent lawless action is a term used in the United States Supreme Court case Brandenburg v.
		"Imminent lawless action" thus became a test that replaced "clear and present danger" in determining the types of speech that were to be treated as free speech to be protected by the U.S. Constitution.
		As of 2004, "imminent lawless action" continues to be the test applied in free speech cases.
	www.studycrime.com /GeneralLaw-A-Z-I/Imminent_lawless_action.php (91 words)

	American Chronicle \| Folks it's time to arm ourselves and get in extra supplies. Anarchy is a Senate vote nearer.
		Imminent lawless action is a term used in the United States Supreme Court case Brandenburg v.
		Under the imminent lawless action test, speech is not protected by the First Amendment if it is likely to cause violation of the law more quickly than an officer of the law can be reasonably summoned.
		As of 2006, "imminent lawless action" continues to be the test applied in free speech cases.
	www.americanchronicle.com /articles/30732 (1816 words)

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		Under the imminent lawless action test, speech is not protected by the First Amendment if it is likely to cause violation of the law more quickly than an officer of the law can be reasonably summoned.
		The doctrine states that speech that will cause, or has as its purpose, "imminent lawless action" (Such as a riot) does not have constitutional protection.
		As of 2006, "imminent lawless action" continues to be the test applied in free speech cases.
	en.askmore.net /Imminent_lawless_action.htm (142 words)

	Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969)
		Freedoms of speech and press do not permit a State to forbid advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.
		Action is often a method of expression, and within the protection of the First Amendment.
		The first count of the indictment charged that appellant "did unlawfully by word of mouth advocate the necessity, or propriety of crime, violence, or unlawful methods of terrorism as a means of accomplishing political reform.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/cas/comm/free_speech/brandenburg.html (3327 words)

	BRANDENBURG v
		such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.
		refined the statute's definition of the crime in terms of mere advocacy not distinguished from incitement to imminent lawless action.
		imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.
	home.mindspring.com /~edale1/BRANDENBURG.htm (4812 words)

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		The first amendment to the Constitution protects a speaker's words and expressions unless both the intent of the speaker and the tendency of the speaker's words was likely to produce or incite an imminent lawless act, one likely to occur.
		However, if the intent of the speaker and the tendency of the speaker's words was to produce or incite an imminent lawless act, then the speech is not protected by the first amendment.
		In sum, the court concluded, "no reasonable juror could [have] conclude[d] that the defendants' words and actions were merely advocating opposition to the income tax laws," and the district court therefore had not erred in refusing to submit a First Amendment instruction to the jury.
	www.usdoj.gov /osg/briefs/1996/w967983w.txt (1611 words)

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		In New York Times, the court held that, in order to recover damages in a libel action, a public official must show actual malice or that a statement was made with knowledge of its falsity or with reckless disregard of whether it was true or false.
		Id. Furthermore, in order to justify a claim that speech should be restrained or punished because it was an incitement to lawless action, the court must be satisfied that the speech (1) was directed or intended toward the goal of producing imminent lawless conduct and (2) was likely to produce such imminent conduct.
		In finding that there was no intent to produce imminent lawless action, the court reasoned that: [T]here is nothing in any of Osbourne's songs which could be characterized as a command to an immediate suicidal act.
	www.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs.cmu.edu/usr/wbardwel/public/nfalist/rice_v_paladin.txt (6641 words)

	NYCLU: NYC Transit Workers "Gag-Order" Lifted (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On December 14, 1999, plaintiffs in the two above-captioned actions filed ex parte Orders to Show Cause with respect to a strike possibly to be undertaken by defendants and their members at 12:01 a.m.
		The injunctive relief requested by the plaintiffs purports to constrain the actions of a number of entities and individuals.
		The Court cautioned that a statute which fails to draw a distinction between the mere advocacy and an actual incitement to imminent lawless activity "impermissibly intrudes upon the freedoms guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments.
	www.nyclu.org /transitamicus.html (1052 words)

	STICKS AND STONES:HOW WORDS CAN HURT
		10 Applying the First Amendment shield to tort actions is especially pernicious when the speaker intends to cause harm by having speech recipients act in reliance on the speech or by inspiring the audience to act in criminal or tortious ways.
		Indeed, the two types of speech recognized by courts in applying Brandenburg—teaching or advocating the moral propriety of non-specific illegal conduct on the one hand, and advocating that which is intended and is likely to effect imminent illegal conduct on the [*PG184]other—merely represent the end points on a spectrum.
		Instead of recognizing this, courts have segregated the universe of verbal and written communication into two forms of speech: that which is directed to and likely to produce imminent lawless conduct and that which does not.
	www.bc.edu /schools/law/lawreviews/meta-elements/journals/bclawr/43_1/04_TXT.htm (7820 words)

	American Chronicle \| Defend Free Speech, Societal change must start with Atheist Marxist hijacked educational systems.
		Imminent, Impending, Threatening all may carry the implication of menace, misfortune, disaster, but they do so in differing degrees.
		It appears the definition used by the courts refers to an immediate threat of lawless action in such a short period of time that a law enforcement officer can not be summoned to prevent the lawless act.
		If the use of pornography or profane words, result in lawless acts, like child pornography or molestation for instance at a much later time, those words are protected speech it seems.
	www.americanchronicle.com /articles/34937 (2209 words)

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		I would therefore advise Burrows that she has little hope of prevailing in a constitutional action, first because the Theatre Company is not likely to be deemed a governmental actor, and second because, even if it were, its actions would survive scrutiny.
		Although the "incitement" cases generally, if not exclusively, involve criminal prosecutions against individuals for inciting lawless action, etc., this is an analogous situation, and presumably a court would use the same analysis.
		In other words, a court would conclude that, unless Spear's lyrics and performance were directed to inciting and likely to incite imminent lawless conduct, he cannot be held liable under state tort law.
	www.uky.edu /Law/exams/Content/c2_f95_ans.htm (1892 words)

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		Brandenburg held that, in order to justify suppression of speech, it must be intended to produce "imminent lawless action" and must be "likely to produce such action." three-ninety-five U-S at four-fourty-seven.
		The type of situation that the Brandenburg "imminent lawless action" test is intended to cover is when a speaker seeks to motivate others to immediate lawless action, and when listeners are likely to engage in the advocated action.
		In such a situation the Brandenburg test requiring that listeners be incited to immediate lawless action is not as likely to be met.
	www.loundy.com /TALK/Terrorism.talk (1124 words)

	Get a Document - by Citation - 244 F.3d 1007
		Posters did not provoke imminent lawless action and were made in a public forum.
		I, does not protect all forms of public speech, such as statements inciting violence or an imminent panic, the public nature of the speech bears heavily upon whether it could be interpreted as a threat.
		In the context of freedom of speech, to rise to incitement, the speech must be capable of producing imminent lawless action.
	cyber.law.harvard.edu /ilaw/Speech/PP2.html (7240 words)

	CNN.com - FindLaw Forum: The September terror attacks, the First Amendment and the advocacy of violence - January 7, ...
		The logic of Brandenburg and Yates separates thought and speech from action (unless that action is so imminent it is certain to be the direct result of the speech).
		All of these positions and actions have made clear that the government will not hesitate to punish organizations and their members for the organizations' links to violence (or even just connections to other organizations which themselves have links to violence).
		Yet if we abandon the "imminent violence" limitation, we must impose other limitations in its place, to try to ensure that speakers are not easily confused with those who act -- and that politics, and political dissent in particular, are not easily equated with violence.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/LAW/01/columns/fl.hilden.violence.01.07 (1687 words)

	Is Violent Speech a Right? \| The American Prospect
		Second, the imminent lawless action must be "likely" to occur.
		Third, the speaker must intend to produce imminent lawless action ("directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action").
		Remarks like those quoted from Rush Limbaugh unquestionably qualify for protection; such remarks are not likely to incite imminent lawless action, and in any case they are not "directed to" producing such action.
	www.prospect.org /cs/articles?article=is_violent_speech_a_right (1906 words)

	Hess v. Indiana
		Under our decisions, "the constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action." Brandenburg v.
		It should be noted at the outset that the case was tried de novo in the Superior Court of Indiana upon a stipulated set of facts, and, therefore, the record is perhaps unusually colorless and devoid of life.
		Perhaps, as these witnesses and the majority opinion seem to suggest, appellant was simply expressing his views to the world at large, but that is surely not the only rational explanation.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/hess.html (1126 words)

	NMU (09/07/2007): Courts stays required release of tax-evasion site’s customers
		A district court’s order to identify users because the site was inciting “imminent” lawless action has been stayed by a federal appellate court.
		The district court had previously ruled that the content on Schulz’s site was not protected First Amendment speech because it “incites imminent lawless action” by directing individuals and entities to violate U.S. tax laws.
		Ohio, which set forth the standard by which speech may be punished as whether it is “directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such actions.” In that case, the court found that a Ku Klux Klan member’s racist provocations were nonetheless protected by the First Amendment.
	www.rcfp.org /news/2007/0907-prr-courts.html (588 words)

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		Held: Since the statute, by its words and as applied, purports to punish mere advocacy and to forbid, on pain of criminal punishment, assembly with others merely to advocate the described type of actions, it falls within the condemnation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments.
		The record shows that a man, identified at trial as the appellant, telephoned an announcer-reporter on the staff of a Cincinnati television station and invited him to come to a Ku Klux Klan "rally" to be held at a farm in Hamilton County.
		Results: As a result of this case, any action that falls under the now broad, due to this specific case, definition of what actually incites imminent lawless action will be labeled as unconstitutional.
	www.netwalk.com /~kelandkat/page107.html (302 words)

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		(Appellee's) action, then, is properly construed as challenging the Secretary's failure to insist that this amendment is implemented in a fashion consistent with the first amendment.
		This is not a class action, and we have no reason to believe that appellee intends to reapply to another CETA program.
		Only the VEC had taken an action, and it is undisputed that the Secretary was not involved in that action.
	www.usdoj.gov /osg/briefs/1982/sg820123.txt (4213 words)

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		Thus, if the action was intentional, but the result was unintentional, the test would term the death "accidental." Under the former test, a death is accidental only if the means or cause of death is accidental.
		Under the Brandenberg test, speech that is "directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and...likely to incite or produce such action" is not protected by the First Amendment.
		It asserted that in order for plaintiffs to win, they had to prove that autoerotic asphyxiation is a lawless act, that the magazine advocated the act, that the publication of "Orgasm of Death" was beyond "mere advocacy" to incitement, and that the incitement was directed to imminent action.
	www.prin.edu /users/els/departments/poli_sci/articles/LAWAA.HTM (8675 words)

	ACLU of Washington \| Content Detail
		Minnesota, 283 U.S. A narrow exception allows prohibition of speech that "is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to induce or produce such action." Brandenburg v.
		There is no showing that lawless action was either asked for or imminent.
		In the absence of incitement to imminent unlawful action, the motion for a preliminary injunction must be denied.
	www.aclu-wa.org /inthecourts/detail.cfm?id=219 (1278 words)

	McCoy v. Stewart
		McCoy argues that his conviction under A.R.S. § 13-2308 was unconstitutional because, at worst, his words to the gang were abstract advocacy of lawlessness not directed to inciting imminent lawless action.
		Nonetheless, given the foregoing analysis, we are forced to agree that McCoy' s speech, at most, constituted mere abstract advocacy of lawlessness, rather that an intentional effort to further illegal activity.
		Other decisions confirm that speech that advocates, teaches, or justifies lawlessness in an abstract way is fully protected, so long as it is not directed to inciting imminent lawless action.
	www.law.com /regionals/ca/opinions/feb/0115700.shtml (2302 words)

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		Minnesota, 283 U.S. A narrow exception allows prohibition of speech that "is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to induce or produce such action." Brandenburg v.
		There is no showing that lawless action was either asked for or imminent.
		In the absence of incitement to imminent unlawful action, the motion for a preliminary injunction must be denied.
	www.eff.org /legal/cases/Sheehan_v_Experian/19980817_dwyer.order (1172 words)

	Speech in most instances is presumed to be protected by the First Amendment until such time as may fall into one of a ...
		It is difficult for the speech opponents to prove that the media speakers "specifically intended" for their speech to inspire audience member to engage in lawlessness or violence.
		Instead, a speaker is punished for incitement to cause imminent lawless action.
		The present advocacy of the Nuremberg Files could have created a strong relationship with its readers such that their actions were imminent.
	www.uiowa.edu /~cyberlaw/cls99/sempaper/olive407.html (4754 words)

	Brandenburg v. Ohio
		The leader was convicted under a statute banning the avocation or teaching of crime.
		Imminence: The state can’t forbid the advocacy of the use of force unless such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to produce such action.
		There was no distinction made at trial between advocacy and incitement to imminent lawless action.
	www.4lawschool.com /conlaw/brandenburg10.shtml (104 words)

	Operation Clambake Present: Scientology Court Files
		In all actions filed prior to August 12, 1976, that seek to enjoin enforcement of a statute, adjudication by a three-judge court is proper.
		except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action." 395 U.S. at 447, 89 S.Ct. at 1829.
		Thus, the actions of the customs officers were proper and the effectuation of the border search was valid.
	www.xenu.net /archive/CourtFiles/occf227.html (2307 words)

	OIT - Texas State Web Site Rules
		No person, whether or not a student or employee of a component institution, shall publicly distribute on the campus of any such institution any petition, handbill, or piece of literature that is obscene, libelous, or directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.
		No person, whether or not a student or employee of a component institution, shall post or carry any sign or poster that is obscene, libelous, or directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.
		Any student who engages in speech, either orally or in writing, that is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action, is subject to discipline.
	www.uta.edu /oit/policy/cs/web/web_publishing.html (1182 words)

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