Provo City v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “(1) A person is guilty of telephone harassment and subject to prosecution in the jurisdiction where the telephone call originated or was received if with intent to annoy, alarm another, intimidate, offend, abuse, threaten, harass, or frighten any person at the called number or recklessly creating a risk thereof, the person: (a) makes a telephone call, whether or not a conversation ensues; (b) makes repeated telephone calls, whether or not a conversation ensues, or after having been told not to call back, causes the telephone of another to ring repeatedly or continuously; (c) makes a telephone call and insults, taunts, or challenges the recipient of the telephone call or any person at the called number in a manner likely to provoke a violent or disorderly response; (d) makes a telephone call and uses any lewd or profane language or suggests any lewd or lascivious act; or (e) makes a telephone call and threatens to inflict injury, physical harm, or damage to any person or the property of any person. (2) Telephone harassment is a class B misdemeanor.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Provo City Corp. v. Thompson

2. “'The right of free speech is guaranteed every citizen that he may reach the minds of willing listeners. _... Clearly, there is no right to audibly invade another's home ... when she has affirmatively expressed a desire to be left alone.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2011 UT App 203 - American Fork City v. Smith