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" American courts adopted this standard but later decisions have rejected it and substituted this test: whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole... "
United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ... and Rules ... - Page 290
by United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1976
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 354

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1957 - 670 pages
...susceptible persons. Regina v. Hicklin, [1868] LR 3 QB 360.24 Some American courts adopted this standard 25 but later decisions have rejected it and substituted...the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.26 The Hicklin test, judging obscenity by the effect of isolated passages upon the most susceptible...
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Committee Prints

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service - 1957 - 834 pages
...formuated by the modern American cases are proper and may be expressed as follows: The test of obscenity is whether, to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the questioned material, taken as a whole, appeals to prurient interest. These standards make the concept...
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Mailing of Obscene Matter: Hearings Before Subcommittee No. 1, Committee on ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 1 - 1958 - 138 pages
...particularly susceptible persons" does not pertain ix' American law, and we have adopted the standard "whether to the average person, applying contemporary...standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appears to prurient interest." The Court went on to say in the Roth case, '.'The Hicklin...
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Detention of Mail for Temporary Periods: Hearings ... Eighty-sixth Congress ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service - 1959 - 110 pages
...established standards in accordance with which the definition must be applied in the following statement : whether to the average person, applying contemporary...material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest. (354 US 476 (1957), 489.) This formula expressly provides for the consideration of community standards....
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Obscene Matter Sent Through the Mail: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service - 1959 - 62 pages
...what you mentioned here about the Roth case which says in effect the standard for judging obscenity is whether to the average person applying contemporary...the material, taken as a whole, appeals to prurient interests. I think that is one of the problems we have because they may feel that people in New York...
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Obscene Matter Sent Through the Mail

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service - 1959 - 76 pages
...formulated by the modern American cases are proper and may be expressed is follows: The test of obscenity is whether, to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the questioned material, taken as a whole, appeals to prurient interest. These standards make the concept...
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Obscene Matter Sent Through the Mail: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service - 1959 - 142 pages
...by the modern American cases are proper and may be expressed as follows : The test of obscenity is whether, to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the questioned material, taken as a •whole, appeals to prurient interest. These standards make the concept...
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Control of Obscene Material: Hearings, Eighty-sixth Congress, First and ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency - 1960 - 178 pages
...determination that certain matter is obscene necessarily entails a finding of fact. The test for obscenity is "whether to the average person, applying contemporary...material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest." Roth v. US (354 US 476). As in a criminal proceeding, there is first a determination that, as a matter...
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Circulation of Obscene and Pornographic Material, 86-2

United States. Congress. House. Subcommittee on Postal Operations of the Post Office and Civil Service Committee - 1960 - 70 pages
...lecherous, dissolute, sensual, debauched, impure, salacious, or pornographic. "Obscene" means that to the average person, applying contemporary community...material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest. "Person" means any individual, partnership, firm, association, corporation, or other legal entity....
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Circulation of Obscene and Pornographic Material: Hearing Before the ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Postal Operations - 1960 - 68 pages
...evidence at the trial, including the testimony of experts, pertaining, but not limited, to — (i) whether, to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the printed or written matter or material taken as a whole is to prurient interest ; (ii) the artistic,...
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