Obscene - Judgment Search Results

Rosen Vs. United States

Court: US Supreme Court

..... the cases which we are considering all cases with regard to obscene prints and obscene pictures the publication of obscene prints and obscene pictures may be in one sense libelous but they are ..... it can reasonably only bear the construction that the publication was claimed to be obscene because of obscene lewd and indecent matters appearing somewhere in the publication it is evident therefore that .....

Marcus Vs. Search Warrant

Court: US Supreme Court

..... s procedures confided to law enforcement officials broad discretion to seize allegedly obscene publications without adequate safeguards to assure nonobscene material the constitutional protection to ..... of being sold published exhibited given away or otherwise distributed or circulated viz obscene lewd licentious indecent or lascivious books phamphlets ballads papers drawings lithographs engravings .....

Ward Vs. Illinois

Court: US Supreme Court

..... kinds of sexually explicit representations that miller used to explicate the aspect of its obscenity definition dealing with patently offensive depictions of specifically defined sexual conduct but those specifics ..... conduct the description or representation of which the state intends to proscribe by its obscenity law if illinois has not complied with this requirement its statute is arguably overbroad .....

Ms. A. Arulmozhi Vs. the Govt. of India and ors.

Court: Chennai

Reported in: (2005)3MLJ497

..... censor board while considering the issuance of certificate must remember that the law against obscenity would protect the society and particularly young from the harmful consequences of the antisocial ..... film women groups sent petitions after petitions to the censor board complaining about the obscene scenes in the film the publicity materials have been published through advertisements in various .....

Pope Vs. Illinois

Court: US Supreme Court

..... people that a work has value may protect that work from being judged obscene justice brennan dissenting justice stevens persuasively demonstrates the unconstitutionality of criminalizing the possession ..... or sale of obscene materials to consenting adults i write separately page 481 u s 507 only .....

Fw/Pbs Vs. City of Dallas

Court: US Supreme Court

..... prostitution bb promotion of prostitution cc aggravated promotion of prostitution dd compelling prostitution ee obscenity ff sale distribution or display of harmful material to minor gg sexual performance by ..... that specialize in books films or entertainment of a particular type that places the obscenity inquiry in a different and broader context our jurisprudence supports the proposition that even .....

Roth Vs. United States

Court: US Supreme Court

..... other publication of an indecent character and roth s conviction thereunder for mailing an obscene book and obscene circulars and advertising are sustained pp 354 u s 479 494 2 in ..... in question as applied appellant alberts was charged with willfully unlawfully and lewdly disseminating obscene matter obscenity has been construed by the california courts to mean having a substantial tendency to .....

Manual Enterprises, Inc. Vs. Day

Court: US Supreme Court

..... something that delicacy purity and decency forbid to be exposed lewd indecent as obscene language dances images lewd 4 lustful libidinous lascivious unchaste syn licentious lecherous ..... dissolute sensual debauched impure obscene salacious pornographic lascivious 1 wanton lewd lustful syn licentious lecherous libidinous salacious .....

Ginzburg Vs. United States

Court: US Supreme Court

..... petitioner ginzburg and three corporations which he controlled were convicted of violating the federal obscenity statute 18 u s c 1461 by mailing three publications an expensive hardcover magazine ..... description of sexual matters such evidence may support the determination that the material is obscene even though in other contexts the material would escape such condemnation petitioners raise several .....

Hamling Vs. United States

Court: US Supreme Court

..... the jury on scienter including its instruction that petitioners belief as to the obscenity or non obscenity of the material is irrelevant it being constitutionally sufficient that the prosecution show ..... 236 the district court further instructed that the petitioners belief as to the obscenity or non obscenity of the material is irrelevant ibid petitioners contend that this instruction was improper .....