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Majority Opinion
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White, J. |
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Concurring Opinion
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Scalia, J. & Blackmun, J. (concurring in part and dissenting in part), |
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Dissenting Opinion
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Brennan, J. & Stevens, J. (joined by Marshall, J., Brennan, J. (in all but n. 11) and Blackmun, J. (in Part I)) |
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Lower Court
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Illinois Court of Appeals |
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Lower Court Ruling
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First Amendment claim denied |
| Lawyers |
Sally Louise Dilgart, Attorney General of Illinois
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| Briefs |
American Booksellers Association, Inc. (for petitioner)
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American Civil Liberties Union et. al. (for petitioner)
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Edward Cooper and James J. Clancy for the city of Santa Ana, California
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Irwin Karp and I. Fred Koenigsberg for Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, Inc. (for petitioner)
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| Ruling - Lower Court |
138 Ill. App. 3d 726, 486 N. E. 2d 350
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| News |
Elsasser, Glen, "Justices Will Rule On Obscenity Law," The Chicago Tribune, Oct. 7, 1986, p. 5
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Kamen, Al, "Rotary's Prohibition of Women Voided," The Washington Post, May 5, 1987, Sect. A, p. 1
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Taylor, Stuart, "Justices Refine Standard in Determining Obscenity," The New York Times, May 5, 1987, Sect. B, p. 5
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| Other |
Adler, Amy, "Post-Modern Art and the Death of Obscenity Law," 99 Yale L.J. 1359 (1990)
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Chemerinsky, Erwin, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (3rd Ed.)(1996), Sect. 11.3.4.2
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Clor, Harry, "Obscenity and the First Amendment; Round Three," 7 Loy. L.A.L.Rev. 207 (1974)
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Cohen, Daniel Mark, "Unhappy Anniversary: Thirty Years Since Miller v. California: The Legacy of the Supreme Court's Misjudgment on Obscenity," 15 St. Thomas L. Rev. 545 (2003)
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| Commentary |
"What's Obscene," The Washington Post, May 12, 1987, Sect. A, p. 18
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Kilpatrick, James J., "Fog and Smut," The Washington Post, May 16, 1987, Sect. A, p. 1
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