In a 5-to-4 decision, the Court held that obscene materials did not enjoy First Amendment protection. The Court modified the test for obscenity established in ...

Miller v. California, 413 US 15 (1973), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court clarifying the legal definition of obscenity.

1 янв. 2009 г. · In Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15 (1973), the Supreme Court upheld the prosecution of a California publisher for the distribution of obscene ...

Appellant was convicted of mailing unsolicited sexually explicit material in violation of a California statute that approximately incorporated the obscenity ...

Appellant was convicted of mailing unsolicited sexually explicit material in violation of a California statute that approximately incorporated the obscenity ...

Obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment and authorities may punish obscene material without infringing upon First Amendment rights.

In the majority opinion, written by Chief Justice Warren Burger, the Court held that obscene materials enjoy no special protection under the First Amendment.

In sum, the Supreme Court: (a) reaffirmed the Roth holding that obscene material is not protected by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution ( ...

In Miller v. California (1973), it devised a three-part test to determine whether a work was obscene: (1) “the average person, applying contemporary community ...