 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1957 - 670 sider
...(c) The standard for judging obscenity, adequate to withstand the charge of constitutional infirmity, is whether, to the average person, applying contemporary...standards, the dominant theme of the material, taken as a whole, appeals to prurient interest. Pp. 488-189. (d) In these cases, both trial courts sufficiently... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1957 - 668 sider
...(c) The standard for judging obscenity, adequate to withstand the charge of constitutional infirmity, is whether, to the average person, applying contemporary...standards, the dominant theme of the material, taken as a whole, appeals to prurient interest. Pp. 488-489. (d) In these cases, both trial courts sufficiently... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service - 1957 - 834 sider
...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 1 - 1958 - 138 sider
...obscene material as that "which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest" ; it held that the test is "whether to the average person, applying...standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest." This definition and test appears broad enough to satisfy... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service - 1959 - 110 sider
...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service - 1959 - 76 sider
...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service - 1959 - 142 sider
...formulated 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Subcommittee on Postal Operations of the Post Office and Civil Service Committee - 1960 - 70 sider
...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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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. 
