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MEJO 341 Midterm Study Questions withVerified Answers
A public (or government) facility that is sometimes available for public use that conforms with
its primary purpose is called a designated public forum. - ✔✔True
When a law is challenged as applied, courts judge the law's constitutionality based on -
✔✔the real effect of the law
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the anti-hate ordinance at issue in RAV v. City of St. Paul
because the law was - ✔✔content-based
In Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, the Supreme Court ruled that
public schools - ✔✔may not regulate non-disruptive student protest
The clear and present danger standard - ✔✔protected more speech than the "bad tendency"
test previously used by courts
Given the Supreme Court's ruling in Elonis v. United States, true threats that are directed at an
individual with the intent and likelihood of causing the listener to fear bodily harm are -
✔✔an ill-defined category of speech that may be punishable
In Brandenburg v. Ohio, the Supreme Court said advocacy of violence is protected speech
unless the speech - ✔✔intends to incite violence and is likely to incite imminent violence
The concept that the Fourteenth Amendment extends the reach of the Bill of Rights to apply
equally to state governments is called - ✔✔the incorporation
Hate speech is - ✔✔not a legal term
, When speech and action are intertwined in a symbolic act, such as flag burning, - ✔✔the
speech may be regulated using content-neutral laws
Fighting words are words directed at an individual that inflict injury or tend immediately to
disturb the peace. - ✔✔True
The First Amendment's protection of disruptive speech is stable regardless of political,
economic, or social conditions. - ✔✔False
Chilling effect is the name used to describe the tendency for unclear government regulations to
discourage the exercise of constitutionally protected rights. - ✔✔True
Public schools may regulate student expression when it is sponsored by the school or is likely to
be understood to represent the school. - ✔✔True
Laws that make viewpoint-based discriminations are reviewed under strict scrutiny and
generally are unconstitutional. - ✔✔True
A court applying the incitement test to determine if the producer of a video game was
responsible for an injury caused by a game player will consider whether the game played was
the proximate cause of the injury. - ✔✔True
In the law, the word "pornography" is - ✔✔not used as a legal term, except in the phrase
"child pornography"
Regarding obscenity, indecency, and the Internet, the U.S. Supreme Court has - ✔✔not yet
upheld a congressional law limiting indecent content on the Internet
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