Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" The basic guidelines for the trier of fact must be: (a) whether "the average person, applying contemporary community standards... "
United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ... and Rules ... - Page 15
by United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1975
Full view - About this book

United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 431

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1976 - 1102 pages
...written or authoritatively construed. . . . "The basic guidelines for the trier of fact must be: ... (b) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently...conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law . . . ." 413 US, at 24. On the following page, the Court gives examples of such "specific" definitions....
Full view - About this book

Reform of the Federal Criminal Laws: Hearings, Ninety-second ..., Parts 11-12

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures - Criminal law - 1971 - 1792 pages
...contemporary community standards would find the work taken as a whole appeals to the prurient interest ..." "(b) whether the work depicts or describes in a patently...serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value." 5. "Utterly Without Redeeming Social Value" is not a constitutional test for obscenity." 6....
Full view - About this book

Criminal Justice Codification, Revision, and Reform Act of 1974 ..., Volume 1

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Criminal justice, Administration of - 1974 - 688 pages
...community standards' would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest, (b) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently...serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value (citations omitted). The Court noted that this would allow punishment only for the sale or exposure...
Full view - About this book

Federal Communications Commission Reports. V. 1-45, 1934/35-1962/64; 2d Ser ...

United States. Federal Communications Commission - Radio - 1975 - 1208 pages
...SOO-foot Reels ol Film, 1:! Cr. L. Rep. 3197 (1973). Under the new standards, for example, one test la whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks "serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value." Miller, supra, 13 Cr. L. Rep. at 3164. This appears to be considerably narrower than the former...
Full view - About this book

Freedom of Speech: Volume 21, Part 2

Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller, Jeffrey Paul - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 468 pages
...community standards" would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest . . . (b) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently...serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value, (emphasis added) The touchstone in obscenity cases is, of course, "sex." In contrast, S. 792...
Limited preview - About this book

Summaries of Leading Cases on the Constitution

Joseph Francis Menez, John R. Vile - Law - 2004 - 660 pages
...contemporary community standards, would find the work as a whole appealing to the prurient interest; (b) whether the work depicts or describes in a patently...the applicable state law; and (c) whether the work as a whole lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. The "utterly without redeeming...
Limited preview - About this book

"Can you say that on TV?": an examination of the FCC's enforcement ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet - Business & Economics - 2004 - 112 pages
...community standards would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest, (2) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently...specifically defined by the applicable state law, and (3) whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific...
Full view - About this book

The Democratic Constitution

Neal Devins, Louis Fisher - Political Science - 2004 - 320 pages
...community standards, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest; (2) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently...specifically defined by the applicable state law; and (3) whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks "serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific...
Limited preview - About this book

Rights, Liberties & the Rule of Law

Maryann Zihala - Law - 2005 - 234 pages
...state regulation where that work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest in sex; portrays, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law; and, taken as a whole, does not have serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. 2. The...
Limited preview - About this book

Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law

Martha Craven Nussbaum - Aversion - 2004 - 440 pages
...state regulation "where that work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest in sex; portrays, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law; and, taken as a whole, does not have serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value."17 This...
Limited preview - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF