Divorced father held in contempt for using racial slurs around a child

[Volokh, Eugene]

Bob Sheridan writes:

> Query:  Is it any more troubling to restrict speech in the domestic 
> dispute context than it is to force the waiver (on pain of 
> jail) of the 
> right to be free from 4th Amendment search protections in the 
> aftermath 
> of a criminal prosecution and conviction?

	Wouldn't the answer be "You bet"?  Splitting up with a spouse
(or a nonspouse) may be bad in all sorts of ways, but it seems like
hardly the equivalent of committing a crime.  Whatever the rationale for
allowing extra speech restrictions on probationers, it doesn't seem to
me to apply to splitting parents.

	Eugene