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" Hicklin. [L]ater 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 appeals to prurient interest. "
Revision of the Federal Criminal Code: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on ... - Page 4067
by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice - 1981 - 5579 pages
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 431

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1976 - 1102 pages
...American courts adopted this standard but later decisions have rejected it and substituted this test: whether to the average person, applying contemporary...standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest. The Hicklin test, judging obscenity by the effect of isolated...
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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
...post, p. 476, the Court held to be constitutional the following standard for judging obscenity — whether to the average person, applying contemporary...standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest. The statutes there involved allowed a jury trial of right,...
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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...standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest. (354 US 476 (1957), 489.) This formula expressly provides...
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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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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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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...standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest." Roth v. US (354 US 476). As in a criminal proceeding, there...
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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...standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest. "Person" means any individual, partnership, firm, association,...
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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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