Court Opinion

ID: 9526033
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 03:10:28.030907+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:18:12.599621
License: Public Domain

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE STOUDER specially concurring: I concur with the result reached by the majority of the court but I do not agree with the reasoning supporting such result. After considering the several opinions in Street v. New York, 394 U.S. 576, 89 S.Ct. 1354, 22 L.Ed.2d 572, I conclude that public flag burning to convey or dramatize protest against social conditions is a special case so far as application of first amendment liberties are concerned. The divergent views expressed in such opinions reveals a basic inclination to hold the first amendment of the Federal constitution inapplicable because of the uniqueness., and special nature of the circumstances.