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Houchins V. Kqed Inc., Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

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Constitutional Law - Obscenity - 1977 Amendments To The Pennsylvania Obscenity Statute, John P. Kopesky

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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Note: Using Constitutional Zoning To Neutralize Adult Entertainment - Detroit To New York, Charles T. Fee, Jr.

Fordham Urban Law Journal

In an effort to prevent the spread of businesses specializing in adult entertainment, many cities have utilized zoning ordinances to combat problems in certain neighborhoods. New York City, Boston, and Detroit all have instituted such restrictions. This Note will consider whether the zoning of businesses specializing in adult entertainment is a legitimate exercise of the state's police power, analyzing its potential as a violation of the first amendment and the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment. In addition, the Note will examine the validity of using the twenty-first amendment to regulate adult entertainment businesses that serve alcoholic beverages.

Book Review: The Law Of Obscenity, Edward J. Berbusse, S.J.

Fordham Urban Law Journal

Edward J. Berbusse, S.J. reviews The Law of Obscenity by Frederick F. Schauer. Schauer's book provides a historical perspective on obscenity law, tracking developments through several centuries. It begins with a look at obscenity law within the Church during the 16th and moves through civil law in England and up to the present in the United States. The book then explores the Miller v. California decision and the Supreme Court's move to a local standard, rather than national, of obscenity. In addition to the Miller case, Schauer looks at other important decisions which developed the modern body of law focusing …

The Supreme Court And The Constitutional Rights Of Prisoners: A Reappraisal, Emily Calhoun

Publications

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Libel: Taskett V. King Broadcasting Co.--A New Washington Standard, Roy W. Kent

Seattle University Law Review

In Taskett v. KING Broadcasting Co., the Washington Supreme Court reevaluated the constitutional limits on libel law with regard to private individuals involved in matters of public interest, and held that private individuals can recover damages "on a showing that in publishing the statement, the defendant knew or, in the exercise of reasonable care, should have known that the statement was false." In adopting the reasonable care standard, the Washington Supreme Court sought to achieve an equitable balance between the media's first amendment rights of free speech and press and the state's interest in compensating private citizens for harm …

Thorns In Their Sides: Courts And Their Critics In Florida, D. Grier Stephenson, Jr.

Florida State University Law Review

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Marks V. United States, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

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Wolman V. Walters, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

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Mt. Healthy City School District Board Of Education V. Doyle, Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

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Wooley V. Maynard, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

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Jones V. North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union, Inc., Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

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The Supreme Court's Interpretation Of The Guarantee Of Freedom Of Speech, David S. Bogen

Faculty Scholarship

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First Amendment Protection For Commercial Advertising: The New Constitutional Doctrine, Thomas W. Merrill

Faculty Scholarship

Governmental regulation of commercial advertising has become a major focus of challenges to established first amendment doctrine. An increasing number of suits have raised constitutional objections to regulations of false or deceptive advertising, regulations of offensive advertising, prohibitions of commercial advertising in certain forums, prohibitions of price advertising for particular products or services, and prohibitions of all advertising for particular products or services.' Until recently, the majority of courts upheld such regulations under the Supreme Court's ruling in Valentine v. Chrestensen that "purely commercial advertising" is unprotected by the first amendment.

In the last two years the Court has subjected …

Search And Seizure Of The Media: A Statutory, Fourth Amendment And First Amendment Analysis, James S. Liebman

Faculty Scholarship

On the evening of October 10, 1974, police appeared at radio station KPFK-FM in Los Angeles with a warrant authorizing them to search the premises for a New World Liberation Front (NWLF) "communique" that took credit for a recent bombing. The officers conducted an intensive 8-hour search-combing files, listening to tapes, and looking through reporters' notes – finally concluding that the NWLF letter was not at the station. The KPFK search warrant was one of six that California law enforcement officials have executed at press offices since 1972. The circumstances surrounding the incident illustrate the rationale behind the recent development …

The Federal Election Campaign Act Amendments Of 1974: The Constitutionality Of Limiting Political Advertising By The Non-Candidate, John P. Hollihan

Florida State University Law Review

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The Constitutional Considerations Of Multiple Media Ownership Regulation By The Federal Communications Commission, Jon L. Mills, John Moynahan, Richard Perlini, George Mcclure

UF Law Faculty Publications

Promoting the dissemination of diverse ideas with a minimum of governmental interference is the goal of the first amendment in protecting free press and free media. This goal is implicit in the public interest mandate of the Communications Act of 1934. A precise balance between restraint and diversity in first amendment policy appears impossible, but the process of decision should reflect both, with deference to restraint where possible. The Federal Communication Commission's Order in Docket 18110 failed to strike such a balance; any future action regarding cross-ownership of broadcast stations by newspapers would benefit by an increased recognition of the …

Libraries, Librarians And First Amendment Freedoms, Robert M. O'Neil

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Obscenity, The Law And Religion, Thomas A. Long

IUSTITIA

The long history of the relation between Western religion and secular law is both interesting and complex.' In what follows I shall discuss one current social issue which is illustrative of this relation,namely, the relatively recent legal-moral controversy over obscenity.

Meek V. Pittinger, Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

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First Amendment Rights And The Use Of Public Facilities By Private Groups With Discriminatory Membership Policies: National Socialist White People's Party V. Ringers, Charles Baily Tomb

Washington and Lee Law Review

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The Future Of First Amendment Overbreadth, J. W. Torke

Vanderbilt Law Review

In Broadrick, Justice White suggests that the willingness of the Court in the past to accord standing to litigants to raise the over-broad aspects of a statute without regard to their own conduct'depended on a "judicial prediction or assumption" regarding the threat to liberty that the statute posed.' The spirit with which the Court makes such predictions would appear to be determinative not only of the underlying standing issue but of the overbreadth claimas well." The key to discovering the paths by which the Court is "retreating" from its overbreadth holiday of the sixties lies in the recognition that the …

Constitutional Law-Blockbusting-Antiblockbusting Section Of The Civil Rights Act Of 1968 Held Not Violative Of First Amendment. Finding Of "Group Pattern Or Practice" Does Not Require A Showing Of Conspiracy Or Concerted Action

Fordham Urban Law Journal

An action was brought by the Attorney General against the president of a realty group and four other real estate brokers to enjoin alleged violations of anti-blockbusting provisions of the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Defendants were accused of individually and collectively engaging in a practice to prevent the enjoyment of rights granted by the Fair Housing Act and that a group of persons was denied rights as a result. It was alleged the defendant's agents made unlawful representations to white homeowners concerning changes in the racial composition of their neighborhood in order to induce sales. The trial court found …

Remarks On The Life Of James F. Byrnes, Donald S. Russell

South Carolina Law Review

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James F. Byrnes And The Supreme Count 1941-1942, Robert Mcc Figg Jr.

South Carolina Law Review

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Bellis V. United States, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

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Hunt V. Mcnair, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

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Hunt V. Mcnair, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

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Papish V. Board Of Curators Of The University Of Missouri, Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

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Case Notes

Fordham Law Review

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