7 All patients had negative serum tests for infectious, metabolic, autoimmune, or hereditary liver disease; no history of alcohol or hepatotoxic drug use; and no signs of chronic liver disease.
In 1968, Congress approved the Federal Flag Desecration Law after a Vietnam War protest. The law made it illegal to âknowinglyâ cast âcontemptâ upon âany flag of the United States by publicly mutilating, defacing, defiling, burning or trampling upon it.â.
The Street decision left open the question of whether flag burning per se was a form of symbolic speech protected by the First Amendment. In 1989, in the highly publicized case of texas v. johnson, 491 U.S. 397, 109 S. Ct. 2533, 105 L. Ed.