Ban on speech ‘about a person’ that negligently causes ‘significant mental suffering, anxiety or alarm’ struck down
The Volokh Conspiracy 2017-11-30
Summary:
Illinois “stalking” and “cyber-stalking” statutes criminalize (among other things), “knowingly engag[ing] in [2 more or acts] directed at a specific person,” including “communicat[ing] to or about” a person, when the communicator “knows or should know that this course of conduct would cause a reasonable person to” “suffer emotional distress,” defined as “significant mental suffering, anxiety […]