Obscenity rules : Roth v. United States and the long struggle over sexual expression /

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For some, he was "America’s leading smut king," hauled into court repeatedly over thirty years for peddling obscene publications through the mail. But when Samuel Roth appealed a 1956 conviction, he forced the Supreme Court to finally come to grips with a problem that had plagued both Amer...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Strub, Whitney (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2013]
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. History.
Landmark law cases & American society.
Temas:
Roth, Samuel, > 1893-1974 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Roth, Samuel, > 1893-1974.
United States. > Supreme Court.
États-Unis. > Supreme Court.
Trials (Obscenity) > United States.
Procès (Obscénité) > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Censorship.
Trials (Obscenity)
United States > Trials, litigation, etc.
United States.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:For some, he was "America’s leading smut king," hauled into court repeatedly over thirty years for peddling obscene publications through the mail. But when Samuel Roth appealed a 1956 conviction, he forced the Supreme Court to finally come to grips with a problem that had plagued both American society and constitutional law for longer than he had been in business. For while the facts of Roth v. United States were unexceptional, its constitutional issues would define the relationship of obscenity to the First Amendment.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 268 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-248) and index.
ISBN:9780700619757
0700619755

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