Jared Stone v. Clayton L. Christianson and Donna M. Christianson

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• holding that material is not obscene if it has “serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value”
• holding that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment
• emphasizing that it is not the United States Supreme Court’s function “to propose regulatory schemes for the States”
• noting that the Miller test has been adopted by Pennsylvania’s Legislature in defining what constitutes obscene material
• stating that Miller’s test for obscenity “provide[s] fair notice to a dealer in such materials that his public and commercial activities may bring prosecution”
• stating that “[w]hen the Government makes speech a crime, the judges on appeal must use an exacting ruler.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).