In 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a conviction for wearing a jacket emblazoned with the words "Fuck the Draft", in a California courthouse corridor. California said the jacket's words violated a law prohibiting disturbing the peace by offensive conduct. The Court decided: "It is, in sum, our judgment that, . . . the State may not, consistently with the First and Fourteenth Amendments, make the simple public display here involved of this single four-letter expletive a criminal offense."

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