Ashlynn Kelly, senior history major at FHSU, joins Hollie Marquess to talk about Anthony Comstock, how the Supreme Court tried to define obscenity, and Kansas’s relationship with obscenity law.
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Selected Bibliography:
Memoirs v. Massachusetts, 383 U.S. 413 (1966), https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/383/413/.
Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15 (1973), https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?public=true&handle=hein.usreports/usrep413&div=10&start_page=15&collection=usreports&set_as_cursor=2&men_tab=srchresults.
Quantity of Books et al. v. Kansas, 378 U.S. 205 (1964), https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?public=true&handle=hein.usreports/usrep378&div=25&start_page=205&collection=usreports&set_as_cursor=0&men_tab=srchresults.
Roth v. United States, 354 US 476 (1957), https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?collection=usreports&handle=hein.usreports/usrep354&id=517&men_tab=srchresults.
State v. A Motion Picture Entitled “The Bet,” 219 Kan. 64, 547 P.2d 760 (Kan. 1976) https://heinonline.org/HOL/CaseLawAuth?cid=1904294&native_id=1904294&rest=1&collection=fastcasefull.
Swearingen v. United States, 161 U.S. 446, 16 S.Ct. 562 (1896), https://heinonline.org/HOL/CaseLawAuth?cid=348734&native_id=348734&rest=1&collection=fastcasefull.
United States v. One Book Called “Ulysses,” 5 F. Supp. 182 (S. D. New York 1933), https://heinonline.org/HOL/CaseLawAuth?cid=7165726&native_id=7165726&rest=1&collection=fastcasefull.
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