Legal Opinion
Shoemaker v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided February 22, 2001No. 00-915PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROBERT L. Brown, Justice.
The appellant, Stefany Yvonne Shoemaker, contests the constitutionality of Ark. Code Ann. § 6-17-106 (Repl. 1999), which provides that it is a misdemeanor for any person to abuse or insult a public school teacher who is performing normal and regular or assigned school responsibilities. We agree that the statute impinges on the First Amendment as well as the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. We reverse the order of the trial court and dismiss.
This appeal stems from events which occurred on October 19, 1999. On that day,…
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