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Uphold Bars To Obscenity Supreme Court Decision
The Supreme Court sustains the federal obscenity statute prohibiting mailing indecent literature. Justice Brennan writes for the majority, rejecting First Amendment challenges by Samuel Roth who was convicted of mailing obscene literature and faces five years’ imprisonment and a $5,000 fine.
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