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The defendant wore the jacket into a courthouse, and the opinion noted that such speech might be prohibitable by a rule targeted solely to courthouses.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Pro Bono Free Speech Case Headed to the Nebraska Supreme Court: 2009
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“Moreover, in obese individuals obese in medical terms taking on such a program might be very dangerous and even if there was an attempt to do so by gradually working up to it, the presence of other conditions might make it permanently prohibitable.”
Majikthise on that “maybe fat isn’t so awful” JAMA study 2005
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Moreover, in obese individuals obese in medical terms taking on such a program might be very dangerous and even if there was an attempt to do so by gradually working up to it, the presence of other conditions might make it permanently prohibitable.
Majikthise on that “maybe fat isn’t so awful” JAMA study 2005
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Here I quote: Respondents urge us to hold, quite simply, that when otherwise prohibitable conduct is accompanied by religious convictions, not only the convictions but the conduct itself must be free from governmental regulation.
Balkinization 2005
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Here I quote: Respondents urge us to hold, quite simply, that when otherwise prohibitable conduct is accompanied by religious convictions, not only the convictions but the conduct itself must be free from governmental regulation.
Balkinization 2005
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The simple and high-minded felicity of still having something prohibitable subject to your omnipotent legislation!
In the Sweet Dry and Dry Christopher Morley 1923
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