Roth v. United States

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1957-06-24

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*479 Mr. Justice Brennan delivered the opinion of the Court. The constitutionality of a criminal obscenity statute is the question in each of these cases. In Roth, the primary constitutional question is whether the federal obscenity statute 1 violates the provision of the First Amendment that “Congress shall make no l…

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