...courts adopted this standard but later decisions have rejected it and substituted this test: whether to the average person, applying contemporary community...material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest. The Hicklin test, judging obscenity by the effect of isolated passages upon the most susceptible persons,...

...adopted this standard M but later decisions have rejected it and substituted this test: whether to the average person, applying contemporary community...the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.26 The Hicklin test, judging obscenity by the effect of isolated passages upon the most susceptible...

...adopted this standard 25 but later decisions have rejected it and substituted this test : whether to the average person, applying contemporary community...the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.26 The Hicklin test, judging obscenity by the effect of isolated passages upon the most susceptible...

...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...

...susceptible persons" does not pertain ix' American law, and we have adopted the standard "whether to the average person, applying contemporary community...standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appears to prurient interest." The Court went on to say in the Roth case, '.'The Hicklin...

...control. Obscenity, said Mr. Justice Brennan in his decision, is to be judged by this norm : "whether to the average person, applying contemporary community...taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest." This norm was objected to at the time of the decision in the dissenting opinions of Mr. Justice Douglas...

...for judging obscenity, adequate to withstand the charge of unconstitutional infirmity, is whether, to the average person, applying contemporary community...material taken as a whole, appeals to prurient interest. The court had doubts as to whether the average person would be able to apply the phrase, "appeals to...

...apparently accepted a definition of obscenity which says that it should be considered as to whether to the average person, applying contemporary community...material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest. My question is, Do you feel that we should attempt to define obscenity and try to have the Congress...

...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...

...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...