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Heller v. New York  

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  • The Supreme Court in Heller v. New York , 413 U.S. 483 (1973), vacated and remanded an obscenity conviction in light of its decisions four days earlier in Miller v. California and Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton , where it had set new standards for determining which materials were obscene, and therefore unprotected by the First Amendment. The Court did so even though it upheld a warrant that a New York judge had issued confiscating a copy of the sexually oriented film, Blue Movie. [Source: Encyclopedia of the First Amendment; Heller v. New York (1973)]

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  • 1973

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Heller_v._New_York

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