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Supreme Court weighs obscene literature standard shift
The Supreme Court opens a takedown of the Roth obscenity test amid three appeals from book dealers and civil liberties groups. Ralph Ginzburg, publisher of Eros and Liaison, seeks reversal of a $42,000 conviction for distributing obscene material. Putnam's Sons appeals a ban on John Cleland's Memoirs. A New York case questions state power to ban sadistic or masochistic works.
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