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No-contact order given in North Side transphobic harassment case; final ruling to come
Magisterial District Judge Leah Williams Duncan today ordered no contact between an Observatory Hill family alleging transphobic harassment and Darian Balcom, the neighbor who is accused of harassing them. Judge Duncan will allow Balcom’s attorneys to submit a brief on their interpretation of the “fighting words doctrine,” which describes one kind of exception to the First Amendment, and then she will issue a final ruling within 90 days, she said in court.