Obscenity

Question 1

Reno v ACLU

Answer 1

The Court struck down the Communications Decency Act of 1996, in which Congress had sought to protect minors from “obscene or indecent” material on the internet.

Question 2

Ashcroft v Free Speech

Answer 2

The Court struck down provisions of the Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996 that criminalized the creating, possession and distribution of “virtual child pornography

Question 3

US v Williams

Answer 3

The Roberts Court upheld the so-called PROTECT Act of 2003, which Congress enacted in response to the ruling in Ashcroft v Free Speech Coalition, and made it a crime to pander child pornography.

Question 4

Osborne v Ohio

Answer 4

The Rehnquist Court upheld Ohio’s statute banning the possession and viewing of child pornography.

Question 5

Stanley v. Georgia

Answer 5

was a United States Supreme Court decision that helped to establish an implied “right to privacy” in U.S. law, in the form of mere possession of obscene materials.

Question 6

Miller v. California

Answer 6

was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court wherein the court redefined its definition of obscenity from that of “utterly without socially redeeming value” to that which lacks “serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.”

Question 7

Roth v US

Answer 7

The Supreme Court upheld both state and federal laws punishing the sale and distribution of publications of material judged to be obscene or indecent.

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