City of Kent v. Kelley

Per Ctiriam.

The Court of Appeals said that, by reason of the remand from the United States Supreme Court, “the basic question for consideration [by it] is to determine under what condition a person may be punished under” the Kent ordinance “for willfully speaking in a noisy, boisterous or other disorderly manner so as to disturb the good order and quiet of the municipality.” The Court of Appeals found that the language used by defendant fell within the framework of Cincinnati v. Karlan, supra, which holds that “epithets, used in a public place and willfully directed at those who can hear…