Sentences with phrase «obscenity cases»

The number of obscenity cases on our docket gives ample testimony to the burden that has been placed upon this Court.

(The Post and Courier, Obscenity case will be heard by jury)

«Should Litigants in Obscenity Case Before Judge Kozinski Moo - ve for a Mistrial?

Not exact matches

When a comment is posted, it is checked not only for swear words and obscenities, but also cases where these words appear within other words.

The statue sought to treat graphic interactive violence as a type of obscenity, but Scalia would have none of it, writing, «Our cases have been clear that the obscenity exception to the First Amendment does not cover whatever a legislature finds shocking, but only depictions of «sexual conduct.

But it became a true sensation on DVD, where a cultish following developed around the wild hijinks of the two namesake New Jersey pals (John Cho and Kal Penn) as they attempted to sate a case of the munchies, and in the process crossed paths with both a cheetah and the erstwhile Doogie Howser, M.D. — Neil Patrick Harris, playing an obscenity - spouting, drugged - up, hyper - masculinized version of himself.

It's a classic case of the film's trailer showing every joke that Standards and Practices will allow them to screen on network TV... and when the only remaining laugh - out - loud moment remaining in the film involves Dr. Phil loudly bellowing an obscenity, you know you're in trouble.

2018: Frank Henenlotter («Basket Case») spins a multi-facted doc about the only American artist convicted of obscenity

Ahhh, personal attacks and obscenity — last defense of those who know they have no leg to stand on and a true sign of maturity (that last part was sarcasm in case you didn't pick up on that).

«I know it when I see it,» said Justice Potter Stewart in that famous pornography case (Jacobellis v. Ohio) parsing the line between obscenity and constitutionally - protected free speech.

The crime comics provision was only half - heartedly enforced: there were a handful of prosecutions through the 1950s, but they seemed to have dropped away by the 1960s — though as late as the 1980s, a «crime comics» charge would occasionally be laid (in one case in the late 80s from Calgary, the charge was eventually changed to an obscenity charge).

There's an interesting case going on in Florida right now that centers on obscenity.

«no person, not even the most learned judge, much less a layman, is capable of knowing in advance of an ultimate decision in his particular case by this Court whether certain material comes within the area of «obscenity.»

Thus, we might conclude that juries are best suited to determine obscenity vel non, and that jury verdicts in this area should not be set aside except in cases of extreme departure from prevailing standards.

It has been suggested that the «contemporary community standards» aspect of the Roth test implies a determination of the constitutional question of obscenity in each case by the standards of the particular local community from which the case arises.

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