Sentences with phrase «state obscenity law»

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.

Answer: Sorry, but your proposed light display is likely in violation of state obscenity laws.

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§ 51.2247.1 (2001) states that a mother may breastfeed her baby in any place of public accommodation, resort, or amusement, and clarifies that breastfeeding is not a violation of law, including obscenity laws.

Attitudes and power structures that permit male dominance over women's breasts, has reached such excess in North American society that breastfeeding can be considered «obscene», spawning US state legislation that expressly excludes breastfeeding women from obscenity laws.

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.

The report noted that black students are disproportionately dealt the harshest exclusionary penalties — expulsions and out - of - school suspensions.1 In 2014, the California state legislature passed a state law (AB420) prohibiting public schools from expelling any student or suspending students in third grade or earlier grades for the offense of «willful defiance» — a catchall category of offenses (including disruption) ranging from shouting obscenities at a teacher to forgetting to bring a pencil to class.

I bought legal textbooks about obscenity, flag burning, protesting, separation of church and state, the Southern Poverty Law Center.

For example, New Jersey statutory law permits the State Registrar to reject any chosen names or surnames that contain an obscenity.