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Jacobellis Vs. Ohio

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 22, 1964

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  15. Speiser Vs. Randall US Supreme Court · Jun 30, 1958
  16. Manual Enterprises, Inc. Vs. Day US Supreme Court · Jun 25, 1962
  17. Kingsley Int'l Pictures Corp. Vs. Regents US Supreme Court · Jun 29, 1959
  18. Fiske Vs. Kansas US Supreme Court · May 16, 1927
  19. U.S. 184 (1964) U.S. Supreme Court Jacobellis v. Ohio
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  20. U.S. 184 (1964) Jacobellis v. Ohio
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  21. Roth v. United
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  22. are within the ambit of the constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech and of the press. Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson
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  23. U. S. 495 . But, in Roth v. United
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  24. States and Alberts v. California
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  25. that often separates obscenity from constitutionally protected expression. Bantam Books, Inc. v. Sullivan
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  26. Speiser v. Randall
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  27. the question whether a particular work is obscene necessarily implicates an issue of constitutional law. See Roth v. United
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  28. Manual Enterprises, Inc. v. Day
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  29. to apply the applicable rules of law upon the basis of an independent review of the facts of each case. E.g., Watts v. Indiana
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  30. true where rights have been asserted under the First Amendment guarantees of free expression. Thus in Pennekamp v. Florida
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  31. S. 487 . It follows that material dealing with sex in a manner that advocates ideas, Kingsley Int'l Pictures Corp. v. Regents
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  32. without social importance. See Zeitlin v. Arnebergh
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  33. of expression can be squared with the guarantees of the First and Fourteenth Amendments. See Manual Enterprises, Inc. v. Day
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  34. was first expressed by Judge Learned Hand in United States v. Kennerley
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  35. expression that is protected by the Federal Constitution. MR. JUSTICE HARLAN pointed out in Manual Enterprises, Inc. v. Day
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  36. acceptable, which in others might be considered offensive to prevailing community standards of decency. Cf. Butler v. Michigan
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  37. Smith v. California
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  38. of the record made in the trial court, and we conclude that it is not obscene within the standards enunciated in Roth v. United
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  39. where the Court's single opinion applied the same standards to both a state and a federal conviction. Cf. Ker v. California
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  40. See Kingsley Int'l Pictures Corp. v. Regents
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  41. Fiske v. Kansas
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  42. Hooven & Allison Co. v. Evatt
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  43. Niemotko v. Maryland
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  44. Edwards v. South
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  45. This is precisely what the Court did in Times Film Corp. v. City
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  46. One, Inc. v. Olesen
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  47. and Sunshine Book Co. v. Summerfield
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  48. U. S. 372 . The obligation has been recognized by state courts as well. See, e.g., State v. Hudson
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  49. Zeitlin v. Arnebergh
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  50. People v. Richmond
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