Cowgill v. California — Opinion of the Court
“ The record before us is not in my judgment suitable for considering this broad question as it does not adequately flush the narrower and predicate issue of whether there is a recognizable communicative aspect to appellant's conduct which appears to have consisted merely of wearing a vest fashioned out of a cutup American flag. Such a question, not insubstantial of itself, has been pretermitted in the Court's previous socalled 'symbolic speech' cases where the communicative content of the conduct was beyond dispute. ”
