Word: breaux
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue: an eleven-year-old girl went up to a car that had stopped in her neighborhood. "Have you ever been laid?" the driver asked. She immediately walked across the street, memorized the license, went home and wrote the number down. Traced, identified by the girl and convicted, Alvin Breaux appealed. The court found that the words used were not constitutionally protected free speech because they were "no essential part of any exposition of ideas and [were of] slight social value." Nor was "obscene and vulgar or profane" too vague, said the court; the law simply bans language that "would...