 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1967 - 1044 pages
...review here. 7 See Gimburg v. United States, 383 US 463, 476, 482 (dissenting opinions) ; JacobeUis v. Ohio. 378 US 184, 196 (concurring opinion); Roth...that no such material can "be proscribed unless it i? found to be utterly without redeeming social value." Memoirs v. Massachusetts, 383 US 413, 418-419.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - 1968 - 1632 pages
...a whole appeals to a prurient interest in sex; (b) the material is patently offensive becau.-«e it affronts contemporary community standards relating...material is utterly without redeeming social value." The Massachusetts court had held that as to the "social value" test, a book which appeals to prurient... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1968 - 1132 pages
...as a whole appeals to a prurient interest in sex; (b) the material is patently offensive because it affronts contemporary community standards relating...material is utterly without redeeming social value." 383 US, at 418. 5 The Ginzburg "test" is difficult to state with any precision. The Court held that... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1968 - 688 pages
...a prurient interest in sex; (b) the material is patently offensive because it affronts [nationwide] contemporary community standards relating to the description...material is utterly without redeeming social value ... LHS-9 The "three elements must coalesce;"' and if a publication is found to have "a modicum of... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Government Operations - 1969 - 50 pages
...as a whole appeals to a prurient interest in sex; (b) the material is patently offensive because it affronts contemporary community standards relating...material is utterly without redeeming social value. While there may be some doubt as to whether a majority of the Supreme Court would subscribe to the... | |
 | Elections - 1973 - 914 pages
...as a whole appeals to a prurient interest in sex; "(b) The material is patently offensive because it affronts contemporary community standards relating...material is utterly without redeeming social value." Almost ten years ago, in McCauley v. Tropic of Cancer, 20 Wis. 2d 134 (1963), this same court cited... | |
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Under this definition, as elaborated in subsequent cases, three elements must coalesce: it must be established that (a) the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest in sex; (b) the material is patently offensive because... 
