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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... artistic value at all , it is protected , because the First Amendment was meant to , and has correctly been held to , protect works of art and the arts in general , and not merely identifiable ideas that artistic works may disseminate ...
... artistic value at all , it is protected , because the First Amendment was meant to , and has correctly been held to , protect works of art and the arts in general , and not merely identifiable ideas that artistic works may disseminate ...
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... artistic expression cannot constitutionally be found “ obscene , ” re- gardless of its " prurient appeal " or " patent offensiveness . " As Dean Geoffrey Stone , a constitutional scholar , stated : " [ A ] rt can constitute obscenity ...
... artistic expression cannot constitutionally be found “ obscene , ” re- gardless of its " prurient appeal " or " patent offensiveness . " As Dean Geoffrey Stone , a constitutional scholar , stated : " [ A ] rt can constitute obscenity ...
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... artistic freedom that indirectly resulted from those attacks on the freedom of artists * testify to the shortcomings inherent in the Miller doctrine . Flawed as was the Miller doctrine at its inception , it recently was further weakened ...
... artistic freedom that indirectly resulted from those attacks on the freedom of artists * testify to the shortcomings inherent in the Miller doctrine . Flawed as was the Miller doctrine at its inception , it recently was further weakened ...
Contents
Girls Lean Back Everywhere | 3 |
Fuck Up Love | 20 |
A Judicial Murder | 40 |
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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