Sentences with phrase «on obscenity charges»
The exhibition immediately sparked controversy when politicians took offense to the show and the use of public funds provided by the National Endowment of the Arts to support it, leading to the indictment of the Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati and Director Dennis Barrie on obscenity charges.
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Offense was taken and controversy sparked, leading to the indictment of the CAC on obscenity charges.
The former category included The People v. Bruce (parrhesia), 2011, an installation by Eric Garduno and Matthew Rana that looks at First Amendment rights in the context of Lenny Bruce's 1964 trial on obscenity charges.
Legal Gia Mannry asks some manga publishers and a retailer how the sentencing of Christopher Handley last month on obscenity charges will affect the way the conduct business.
In real life, Reems was jailed on obscenity charges and fought a lengthy legal battle with the help of none other than Alan Dershowitz while also fighting a persistent battle with hard drugs.
now they invited to attend the group's routine breakfast meeting, but was disinvited after he was indicted by a grand jury on obscenity charges.
Abortion clinics are firebombed; Planned Parenthood workers are murdered; an art gallery owner is arrested for exhibiting Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs; a rap group is arrested on obscenity charges; the civil rights — or «special privileges» — of gays and lesbians are the subject of controversial referenda; and issues of multiculturahsm, freedom of expression and «political...
after he was indicted on the obscenity charge, but considering they're all rethugliban, that ain't likely to happen as any investigation would lead right to RNC headquarters.
Not exact matches
The artist's works and influence, however, remain vital, as evidenced by a new anniversary exhibit, After the Moment: Reflections on Robert Mapplethorpe, which presents works by 35 contemporary artists, including some who witnessed the protests and obscenity charges brought against then — CAC director Dennis Barrie.
With a tip of his hat to Eric Miller, who brought the story to his attention, Volokh Conspiracy blogfather Eugene Volokh takes on the story of two Laramie, Wyo., men who are «facing obscenity charges for allegedly building a snow sculpture of a phallus in their front yard.»