Sentences with phrase «defined obscenity»

Up to the 1950s the U.S. Supreme Court applied the Hicklin test, which defined obscenity as that material with a «tendency... to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall.»

He also refuses to spell out how the proposed lines that he's called «hyper political» should be changed, instead preferring to quote the former US Supreme Court Judge who was asked to define obscenity.

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The law also states that breastfeeding a child or expressing breast milk does not constitute sexual conduct or sexual contact as defined in § 566.010, and is not considered an act of public indecency, indecent exposure, lewd touching or obscenity.

And although obscenity is notoriously difficult to define, Scholten said «inappropriate» displays would not be allowed at the parks and that he's not aware of or anticipating any displays that could be inflammatory.

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Trying to define personal branding is like Justice Potter Stewart trying to define «obscenity» — you know it when you see it.

These historic and traditional categories long familiar to the bar, — including obscenity, defamation, fraud, incitement, and speech integral to criminal conduct, — are well - defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise any Constitutional problem.

Stewart concluded that the First Amendment protected all obscenity except for hard - core pornography, which he declined to define.

Recently this Court put its hand to the task of defining the term «obscenity» in Roth v. United States, 354 U. S. 476.

In law, words are typically far more precisely defined than in general use, and this is certainly the case here, at least for «obscenity.»