Summary

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.
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