 | United States. Congress. House. Education and Labor - 1965 - 152 lapas
...mailability. In 1957 the Supreme Court of the United States observed that the test for obscenity is whether to the average person, applying contemporary...standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interests. This, we believe, clearly leaves the decision up to the courts... | |
 | Abraham S. Blumberg - 328 lapas
...reversed the suppression of Memoirs, better known as Fanny Hill, under the Roth test of 1957 — that is, "whether to the average person, applying contemporary...taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest." The conviction of Edward Mishkin, owner of the Main Stem and Midget book stores in New York City, was... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 1 - 1970 - 1244 lapas
...(1957) the Court set forth the "Roth" definition of obscenity which holds that obscenity is denned as whether to the average person, applying contemporary...standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to the prurient interest. Over the past twelve years, the Court has continually... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 3 - 1970 - 1244 lapas
...(1957) the Court set forth the "Roth" definition of obscenity which holds that obscenity is defined as whether to the average person, applying contemporary...standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to the prurient interest. Over the past twelve years, the Court has continually... | |
 | John H. Gagnon, William Simon - 308 lapas
...reversed the suppression of Memoirs, better known as Fanny Hill, under the Roth test of 1957 — that is, "whether to the average person, applying contemporary...taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest." The conviction of Edward Mishkin, owner of the Main Stem and Midget book stores in New York City, was... | |
 | Ray C. Rist - 1974 - 304 lapas
...in Roth in the following terms: '[W] nether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest.' Under this definition, as elaborated in subsequent cases, three elements must coalesce: it must be... | |
 | John D'Emilio - 1998 - 292 lapas
...a manner appealing to prurient interest." The court substituted a standard different from Hicklin: "whether to the average person, applying contemporary...standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest."7 Although the Roth decision appeared to support the forces... | |
 | Peter C. Rollins - 1983 - 308 lapas
...protection to writers, artists, and filmmakers in the depiction of sex: a work was not obscene unless "to the average person, applying contemporary standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to the prurient interest." Five years later, in another decision, the court added... | |
 | Christopher Nealon - 2001 - 228 lapas
...argued against the backdrop of the Court's 1957 definition of obscenity in Roth vs. United States: "whether to the average person, applying contemporary...standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest." D'Emilio points out that this standard differed from the... | |
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US 467 (1957), which held that whether a work was obscene must turn on "whether to the average person, applying contemporary standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest. 
