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Alexander Vs. United States

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jan 12, 1993

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  1. Bantam Books, Inc. Vs. Sullivan US Supreme Court · Dec 03, 1962
  2. Roaden Vs. Kentucky US Supreme Court · Jun 25, 1973
  3. Fort Wayne Books, Inc. Vs. Indiana US Supreme Court · Feb 21, 1989
  4. Southeastern Promotions, Ltd. Vs. Conrad US Supreme Court · Mar 18, 1975
  5. New York Vs. Ferber US Supreme Court · Jul 02, 1982
  6. Alexander v. United
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  7. States - 509 U.S. 544 (1993) October Term, 1992 Syllabus Alexander V. United
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  8. orders forbidding certain communications that are issued before the communications occur. See, e. g., Near v. Minnesota
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  9. on suspicion of being obscene without a prior judicial obscenity determination, as occurred in, e. g., Marcus v. Search
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  10. were his assets ordered forfeited without the requisite procedural safeguards. 545 Fort Wayne Books, Inc. v. Indiana
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  11. U. S. 46 , distinguished. His claim is also inconsistent with Arcara v. Cloud
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  12. from the statutes at issue in this Court's overbreadth cases. Cf., e. g., Board of Airport Comm'rs of Los Angeles v. Jewsfor
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  13. can be regulated or actually proscribed consistent with the Amendment, see, e. g., Roth v. United
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  14. through racketeering activity.l The Court of Appeals affirmed the District Court's forfeiture order. Alexander v. Thornburgh
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  15. Id., at 836 (quoting United States v. Pryba
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  16. different from the injunction prohibiting the publication of expressive material found to be a prior restraint in Near v. Minnesota
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  17. of what constitutes a prior restraint is borne out by our cases, even those on which petitioner relies. In Near v. Minnesota
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  18. involved a true restraint on future speech-a permanent injunction. So, too, did Organization for a Better Austin v. Keefe
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  19. U. S. 415 (1971), and Vance v. Universal
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  20. future exhibition of films that have not yet been found to be obscene. 445 U. S., at 31lo See also New York Times Co. v. United
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  21. suspected of being obscene without a prior judicial determination that they were in fact so. See, e. g., Marcus v. Search
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  22. Quantity of Copies of Books v. Kansas
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  23. safeguards, another recurring theme in our prior restraint cases. Contrasting this case with Fort Wayne Books, Inc. v. Indiana
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  24. statute operated as an unconstitutional prior restraint in this case is also inconsistent with our decision in Arcara v. Cloud
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  25. of the principle of freedom of speech was held inconsistent with our First Amendment as long ago as Grosjean v. American
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  26. providing greater protection from prior restraints than from subsequent punishments, see Southeastern Promotions, Ltd. v. Conrad
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  27. which church censor. See generally T. Emerson, System of Freedom of Expression 504 (1970). Beginning with Near v. Minnesota
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  28. for prepublication review, but also injunctions against future speech issued by judges. See Pittsburgh Press Co. v. Pittsburgh
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  29. to statutes that impose severe prison sentences and fines as punishment for obscenity offenses. See, e. g., Ginzburg v. United
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  30. Smith v. United
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  31. if he himself has engaged in speech that could be regulated under a more narrowly drawn statute. See, e. g., Broadrick v. Oklahoma
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  32. City Council of Los Angeles v. Taxpayers
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  33. different from the statutes at issue in our overbreadth cases. Cf., e. g., Board of Airport Comm'rs of Los Angeles v. Jews
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  34. U. S., at 60 (quoting Smith v. California
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  35. have a far more powerful deterrent effect on protected speech than the prospect of any sort of forfeiture. Cf. Blanton v. North
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  36. Tribune Co. v. Minnesota
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  37. can be regulated or actually proscribed consistent with the First Amendment, see, e. g., Roth v. United
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  38. Miller v. California
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  39. Austin v. United
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  40. accord, Browning-Ferris Industries of Vt., Inc. v. Kelco
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  41. regulated and punished, within proper limitations, without violating the First Amendment. See, e. g., New York v. Ferber
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  42. Roth v. United
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  43. stringent fines and jail terms as punishments for violations of the federal obscenity laws. See Fort Wayne Books, Inc. v. Indiana
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  44. Ginzburg v. United
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  45. or it would have been unnecessary for us to reserve the specific question four Terms ago in Fort Wayne Books, Inc. v. Indiana
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  46. Although in personam forfeiture statutes were well grounded in the English common law, see Calero-Toledo v. Pearson
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  47. articles put to unlawful use, or in its broadest reach, to proceeds traceable to unlawful activity. See United States v. Parcel
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  48. Russello v. United
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  49. methods of punishment. The Court says that, taken together, our decisions in Fort Wayne Books and Arcara v. Cloud
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  50. that is close to the proscribed line, speech which is entitled to the protections of the First Amendment. See Speiser v. Randall
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