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scottx2

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Mon Dec 30, 2013, 04:47 PM Dec 2013

Supreme Court News - Arizona & Arpaio's Laws under attack [View all]

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Source: U.S. Supreme Court

SUPREME COURT NEWS - FIRST AMENDMENT ATTACK UPON ARIZONA HARASSMENT STATUTE - Sheriff Joe not happy

Scott Huminski v. City of Surprise, Arizona
United States Supreme Court -,Docket 13-7504
Washington D.C.


In a filing received by the U.S. Supreme Court, government is portrayed fervently defending a state criminal harassment statute that makes any speech contrary to the government's goals and ideals a crime under.AZ Rev. Stat. § 13-2921 (criminal harassment).


Speech that tends to "alarm, annoy or harass" anyone, including government officials and police, is a crime in Arizona. Silencing dissent is the hallmark of a police state.


Petition for Writ of Certiorari here...

http://www.scribd.com/doc/178501012/Supreme-Court-Certiorari-Petition-and-Appendix-First-Amendment-attack-upon-Arizona-Harassment-statute

U.S. Supreme Court Docketing papers here,...

http://www.scribd.com/doc/188167075/Supreme-Court-Docketing-Huminski-v-Arizona-harassment-statute1

No surprise that this statute exists in Arizona. Under the patently unconstitutionally vague and overbroad Arizona harassment statute, this Supreme Court litigation is a crime as is this article when read by a resident of Arizona, say … Sheriff Joe Arpaio. No doubt that the litigation and this posting tends to "annoy" the Sheriff and like-minded residents of Arizona.



Read more: http://www.scribd.com/doc/178501012/Supreme-Court-Certiorari-Petition-and-Appendix-First-Amendment-attack-upon-Arizona-Harassment-statute

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