Quiz: Limits to Free Speech

Identify all the categories of speech not protected by the First Amendment.

One unprotected category is incitement, that is, advocacy that is intended to produce imminent lawless action in a context in which such lawless action is likely. How has the court defined the word “imminent?”

Which of the following is not considered protected student speech under the First Amendment? 

A single inappropriate statement made in jest containing sexual innuendo can get the jokester expelled from a university on the grounds of harassment, disruption, and disorderly conduct.