# Price v. State

> Indiana Supreme Court · November 1, 1993 · 622 N.E.2d 954

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9717246

## Case

- **Full name:** Colleen PRICE, Appellant (Defendant Below), v. STATE of Indiana, Appellee (Plaintiff Below)
- **Court:** Indiana Supreme Court
- **Decided:** November 1, 1993
- **Citations:** 622 N.E.2d 954; 1993 Ind. LEXIS 183; 1993 WL 437770
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Givan
- **Judges:** Shepard, Debruler, Krahulik, Givan, Dickson
- **Cited by:** 158 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding the language of a disorderly conduct statute did not "invite arbitrary or discriminatory enforcement" because the statute's "reasonableness standard provide[d] a constraining and intelligible enforcement guideline for police and prosecutors"
- holding that the defendant’s overall complaint which included her statement that she had not done anything after being threatened with arrest constituted political speech
- holding that defendant’s overall complaint, which included her statement that she had not done anything after being threatened with arrest, constituted political speech
- concluding that the state imposes a material burden when it treats as an abuse political speech which does not harm any particular individual (“public nuisance”)
- rejecting a vagueness challenge to disorderly conduct statute, finding that “the objective ‘reasonableness’ test is used in many areas of the law as an appropriate determinant of liability and thus a guide to conduct”

## Opinion text

GIVAN, Justice,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent from the majority opinion in this case. I believe the Court of Appeals opinion reported at 600 N.E.2d 103 is correct in every respect.
I do not think transfer of this case and reversal of the trial court is justified.
DICKSON, J., concurs.

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