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Obscenity Rules: Roth v. United States and the Long Struggle over Sexual Expression (Landmark Law Cases and American Society)
Whitney Strub
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Description for Obscenity Rules: Roth v. United States and the Long Struggle over Sexual Expression (Landmark Law Cases and American Society)
Paperback. An examination of the landmark 1957 Supreme Court case "Roth v. United States," which for the first time attempted to define what constitutes obscenity in American life and law. Explores this problematic ruling within the broad sweep of American social and legal history. Series: Landmark Law Cases and American Society. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: JPVH2; LAZ; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 358.
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.
The Supreme Court’s 6–3 decision in Roth for the first time tried to definitively ... Read more
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.
The Supreme Court’s 6–3 decision in Roth for the first time tried to definitively ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Landmark Law Cases and American Society
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700619375
SKU
V9780700619375
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About Whitney Strub
Whitney Strub is an assistant professor of history at Rutgers University in Newark, USA and the author of Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right.
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