Saint Louis University School of Law Scholarship Commons All Faculty Scholarship 2020 'Terroristic Threats' and COVID-19: A Guide for the Perplexed Chad Flanders Saint Louis University School of Law Courtney Federico Saint Louis University School of Law Eric Harmon Saint Louis University School of Law Lucas Klein Saint Louis University School of Law Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.slu.edu/faculty Part of the Criminal Law Commons, Respiratory Tract Diseases Commons, and the Virus Diseases Commons Recommended Citation Flanders, Chad and Federico, Courtney and Harmon, Eric and Klein, Lucas, 'Terroristic Threats' and COVID-19: A Guide for the Perplexed (April 14, 2020). Forthcoming, University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online. Also available at http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3575700 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarship Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Faculty Scholarship by an authorized administrator of Scholarship Commons. For more information, please contact
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[email protected]. No. 2020-05 “TERRORISTIC THREATS” AND COVID -19: A GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED Chad Flanders Saint Louis University - School of Law Courtney Federico Saint Louis University - School of Law Eric Harmon Saint Louis University - School of Law Lucas Klein Saint Louis University - School of Law Forthcoming, University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online “TERRORISTIC THREATS ” AND COVID-19: A GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED Chad Flanders, Courtney Federico, Eric Harmon and Lucas Klein 1 ABSTRACT: The first few months of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States saw the rise of a troubling sort of behavior: people would cough or spit on people or otherwise threaten to spread the COVID-19 virus, resulting in panic and sometimes thousands of dollars ’ worth of damages to businesses.