Sentences with phrase «obscenity laws»
"Obscenity laws" refers to regulations that determine what is considered offensive, inappropriate, or morally unacceptable in society, particularly regarding sexual content. These laws aim to restrict or regulate the distribution, display, or creation of such materials to maintain public decency standards. Full definition
Rather than being used as a way to tar the judge, doesn't this just raise questions about obscenity laws in the first place?»
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Officers met gallery bosses and are also understood to have consulted the Crown Prosecution Service as to whether the image broke obscenity laws.
Prior restraint would only be granted if the book violated obscenity laws, endangered national security or if it were the only way possible to ensure a fair criminal trial for a defendant, he says.
Whatever you think about obscenity law, this opinion is pretty clearly inconsistent with existing doctrine.
Appellant, manager of a motion picture theater, was convicted under a state obscenity law of possessing and exhibiting an allegedly obscene film, and the State Supreme Court upheld the conviction.
There, an adult movie theatre had been shut down under obscenity laws and the court was trying to determine whether constitutional protections apply to those forms of speech which are obscene.
The whole «common use» thing, is more or less their attempt to interpret how the framers of the constitution talked about guns and gun regulation in their various writing and correspondence, as well as to let the «social bellwether» regulate the issue, much like censorship and obscenity laws often have «reasonable person» or «community standard» components to them.
She was accused of violating Japanese obscenity laws.
Under Wyoming obscenity law, which tracks the First Amendment requirements...»
The petitioner's conviction was affirmed in Roth, and federal obscenity law was left in force.
A display due to go on show to the public at Tate Modern tomorrow has been withdrawn after a warning from Scotland Yard that the naked image of actor Brooke Shields aged 10 and heavily made up could break obscenity laws.
Answer: Sorry, but your proposed light display is likely in violation of state obscenity laws.
The Tate Modern was to show the work as part of its larger exhibition «Pop Life: Art in a Material World» but closed the gallery in which it was contained after Scotland Yard warned that the Shields photograph could violate obscenity laws.
Fae is a moderate, articulate and very well - read commentator on a range of issues, including pornography, obscenity law, efforts at online filtering and a range of other matters.
They tend to land on the right side, at least of history, in debates around NEA grants, public artworks, obscenity laws, and the like.
Dorothy Iannone played a direct role in the legal challenges to obscenity laws and censorship in the US.
In 2009, Richard Prince's work Spiritual America, an appropriation of a nude photograph of a prepubescent Brooke Shields, was removed from view at Tate Modern after a warning from the Metropolitan police that the image could break obscenity laws.
Keep in mind that if the film is not just pornographic but actually obscene, obscenity laws could still apply even if you convince them it isn't prostitution.
The problem with any obscenity laws is figuring out what exactly is obscene.
The fact that Apple sells products with parental controls to minors is itself an omission of guilt under products liability and obscenity laws.