For their part, many school or district leaders have provided almost no explanation for these suspensions; others have accused students of "disorderly conduct" or "obscene behavior".
Hawkins' lawyer, Ronny Cham, said "causing annoyance by conducting obscene acts in a public place" is the likely charge.
It says the law he was convicted under — criminalizing "offensive, obscene, abusive, boisterous, or noisy conduct" that tends to "alarm, anger or disturb others" — is unconstitutionally vague, and makes a lot of perfectly harmless speech illegal.
Creation and distribution of "animal crush" videos is illegal under a federal law which defines them as obscene images that depict "actual conduct in which one or more living non-human mammals, birds, reptiles or amphibians is intentionally crushed, burned, drowned, suffocated, impaled, or otherwise subjected to serious bodily injury".
Indeed, the more often a driver carried a gun, the greater the likelihood that the driver would engage in such "road rage" conduct as making obscene gestures, cursing, tailgating or blocking other drivers.
Mr. Santarrosa's contract includes a clause that prohibits "tortuous, illegal, obscene, offensive or distasteful remarks or conduct in connection with the shows".
Obscene lexicon is equated to disorderly conduct, there is an appropriate article in the Code of Administrative Offences.. Obscene language offends both children and adults.
Davidson's campaign against the stereotype of L.A. as a glamorous company town rife with airheads, a place to find fleeting fame and fritter away an obscene fortune, may not have been conducted with flamboyant showmanship.
"Claiming that my client's 'culpable conduct' caused him to be abused is obscene," the letter said.
Clarke was charged under Article 2.1.4 of the ICC code of conduct for using "language or a gesture that is obscene, offensive or insulting during an International Match".
