Girls Lean Back Everywhere: The Law of Obscenity and the Assault on GeniusWritten by the attorney who argued and won the Tropic of Cancer case before the Supreme Court, this is a riveting book about more than the freedom of expressions; it is about a profound, insoluble, and ongoing crisis within our culture that guarantees unprecedented civil liberties but asks us to suppress our deepest human impulses. |
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Page 289
... Roth's fate , it took the one copy along . In the arguments that eventually took place in the Supreme Court in Roth's case , the publisher's lawyers contended that the jurors could not possibly have read the entire book during the short ...
... Roth's fate , it took the one copy along . In the arguments that eventually took place in the Supreme Court in Roth's case , the publisher's lawyers contended that the jurors could not possibly have read the entire book during the short ...
Page 297
... Roth's case , which concurred in the judgment to affirm the publisher's conviction but mar- shaled cogent reasons why , as a matter of constitutional law and common sense , the Comstock law should have been invalidated and Roth's convic ...
... Roth's case , which concurred in the judgment to affirm the publisher's conviction but mar- shaled cogent reasons why , as a matter of constitutional law and common sense , the Comstock law should have been invalidated and Roth's convic ...
Page 301
... Roth's case spoke of Roth's publications as “ hard - core ” pornography although Judge Clark , in his opinion for the two - judge majority , referred to them once as " salable pornography " and again as " commercialized ob- scenity ...
... Roth's case spoke of Roth's publications as “ hard - core ” pornography although Judge Clark , in his opinion for the two - judge majority , referred to them once as " salable pornography " and again as " commercialized ob- scenity ...
Contents
Fuck Up Love | 20 |
A Judicial Murder | 40 |
A SermonontheMountof Venus | 54 |
Copyright | |
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Girls Lean Back Everywhere: The Law of Obscenity and the Assault on Genius Edward DeGrazia No preview available - 1993 |
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