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THE 1970S 1969 1979

SUPREME COURT CASE ROE V WADE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
(1973) A first amendment case. The Court defined obscenity. To be obscene, the work, taken as a whole, must be judged by “the average person applying contemporary community standards” to appeal to the “prurient interest” or to depict “in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by applicable state law” and to lack “serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value”
A
Miller v. California
B
Mapp v. Ohio
C
Griswold v. Connecticut
D
New York Times v. Sullivan
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Obscenity refers to a narrow category of pornography that violates contemporary community standards and has no serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value. For adults at least, most pornography-material of a sexual nature that arouses many readers and viewers-receives constitutional protection.

Detailed explanation-2: -Miller v. California (1973) By David L. Hudson Jr. The Supreme Court in Miller v. California established a new standard for determining what could be considered obscene materials and subject to government restrictions.

Detailed explanation-3: -Speech that is obscene and thus lacking First Amendment protection must be without serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

Detailed explanation-4: -Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15 (1973), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court modifying its definition of obscenity from that of “utterly without socially redeeming value” to that which lacks “serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value".

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