| United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1976 - 1102 Seiten
...trier of fact must be: (a) whether 'the average person, applying contemporary 767 Opinion of the Court community standards' would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest, Kois v. Wisconsin, [408 US 229,] 230 [(1972)], quoting Roth v. United States, [354 US 476,] 489 [(1957)];... | |
| Gerhard Leibholz - 1976 - 718 Seiten
...to be applied by the states in determining whether obscene material is subject to regulation are (1) whether the average person, applying contemporary...taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest, (2) whether the works depicts or describes »in a patently offensive way« (but the patently offensive... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1977 - 1192 Seiten
...comment. Under prevailing constitutional doctrine, material cannot be proscribed unless. inter alia, " 'the average person, applying contemporary community...taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest . . . [and] describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime - 1977 - 500 Seiten
...pornography, and thus beyond the protection of the First Amendment, if it meets the following test: (a) the average person, applying contemporary community...taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest; and (b) the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined... | |
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