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Demystifying Secondary Effects Analysis: The Example Of The "Explosive" Combination Of Erotic Entertainment And Alcohol, Leslie Jacobs
Demystifying Secondary Effects Analysis: The Example Of The "Explosive" Combination Of Erotic Entertainment And Alcohol, Leslie Jacobs
Leslie Gielow Jacobs
Under secondary effects analysis, regulations that target erotic entertainment are subject to deferential “intermediate” judicial review rather than the strict scrutiny that usually applies to government actions that target protected speech activities based on their content. According to the Justices’ articulations, lesser scrutiny is appropriate because secondary effects are “unrelated to the impact of the speech on its audience.” Although the determination that an effect is “secondary” is critical to moving an ostensibly content based regulation into deferential scrutiny, the Court has never explained how the abstract definition applies to specific asserted “secondary effects” and, following the Court’s lead, lower …
The Limits Of Protecting Free Speech (Reviewing Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic, Must We Defend Nazis? Hate Speech, Pornography, And The New First Amendment (1997), Robert Lipkin
Robert Justin Lipkin
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