The search warrant application noted that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit "has held that even incidental review of Speech or Debate privileged material by agents during the execution of a search of a Member's office violates the Privilege unless the member is provided an opportunity to review and assert the Privilege".
The town argued that the residents-only policy did not bar any expression or association and that its effect on free speech was incidental.
Most people would agree that one of the things that make literature different from philosophy and self-help books is that in nonliterary texts rhetorical devices and figures of speech are incidental to the meaning, and in literary texts that sort of language — metaphors, symbols, allegories, all the forms and styles of fiction — are sources of meaning.
The speech is incidental to the regulation of the method of therapy, and It is no more a regulation of speech for First Amendment purposes for the government to regulate talk therapy than it is for it to regulate drug or electric shock therapy.
Even more queasily, the speech is an incidental detail, irrelevant to the main business of the play.
The numbers from TransCanada -- the company behind the pipeline -- have already been discredited as fuzzy math for using tricks like double counting and incidental employment for dancers, choreographers, and speech therapists.
Dantiscus wrote, in Latin, incidental verse, love poetry, and panegyrics (formal speeches of praise).
He notes that any speech-related effects are "indirect, incidental, and entirely commercial".
Shubb wrote, "Even if SB 1172 is characterized as primarily aimed at regulating conduct, it also extends to forms of (conversion therapy) that utilize speech and, at a minimum, regulates conduct that has an incidental effect on speech".
The incidental interactions we'll have will be awkward: Can the robot understand my speech?
