No. 24-144

Thomas Charles Felton Jones v. South Carolina

Lower Court: South Carolina
Docketed: 2024-08-09
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: constitutional-challenge first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement overbreadth-doctrine verbal-resistance
Key Terms:
FirstAmendment DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2024-09-30
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a county ordinance that criminalizes verbal acts of resistance against law enforcement is facially invalid under the First Amendment due to overbreadth

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Whether a county ordinance that criminalizes any verbal act that resists, hinders, impedes, or interferes with a law enforcement officer is facially invalid because it is substantially overbroad and violates the First Amendment? i

Docket Entries

2024-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2024-08-14
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/30/2024.
2024-08-09
Waiver of right of respondent State of South Carolina to respond filed.
2024-08-06
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 9, 2024)

Attorneys

State of South Carolina
Mark Reynolds FarthingS.C. Office of the Attorney General, Respondent
Thomas Charles Felton Jones
Andre Ta Nguyen13th Circuit Public Defender, Petitioner
Michael George MartinezThirteenth Circuit Public Defender, Petitioner