Saint Paul's Bias-Motivated Crime Ordinance is a content-based restriction of speech and is therefore unconstitutional. Decided June 22, 1992 (argued December 4, 1991). Opinion of the Court: Antonin Scalia → go there Applied: the First Amendment → go there Topic: Freedom of speech and of the press. R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul, 505 U.S. 377 (1992), is a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously invalidated Saint Paul, Minnesota's Bias-Motivated Crime Ordinance and reversed the conviction of a teenager for burning a cross on the lawn of an African-American family. The ordinance was held to violate the First Amendment's protection of freedom of speech. The court reasoned that the ordinance constituted "viewpoint discrimination" that could cause exclusions from the marketplace of ideas. Wiki link