Sentences with phrase «obscenity decisions»

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In a landmark 1957 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court asserted that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.

These questions are deeply relevant to porn, and many judgments on them are embedded in the Supreme Court's decisions about obscenity.

In this context a series of judicial decisions concerning obscenity, freedom of expression, and, most notoriously, abortion itself has effectively elevated these new «rights» to the status of an orthodoxy from which dissent is increasingly not tolerated.

In a free speech decision having to do with obscenity, Justice Harlan opined in 1971, «The Constitution leaves matters of taste and style so largely to the individual.»

But Supreme Court decisions of the»60s and»70s have rendered obscenity pretty ungainly to work with as a criminal charge.

«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.»