Sentences with phrase «under obscenity laws»

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.

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Breastfeeding may not be considered a nuisance, obscenity or indecent exposure under this law.

The National Eczema Association, however, will have no liability related to the content of any such Communications, whether or not arising under the laws of copyright, defamation, privacy, obscenity, or otherwise.

The under - the - breath comments soon spilled across the dais, and Wilson was besieged by a small group of a half - dozen critics who came to board meetings to call him every name in the book, from an Uncle Tom to a practitioner of Jim Crow laws to all manner of obscenities.

Aware that charges could arise, Sirkin filed an action of declaratory judgment in local court, arguing that under Ohio law, a legitimate museum such as the CAC could not be charged with obscenity.

Anthony Comstock, the government's obscenity enforcer (birth control was obscene under the law) entrapped William into handing one of his wife's pamphlets to an undercover police officer.

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.