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· 12/8/2005

United States v. Extreme Associates, Inc. Robert Zicari, AKA Rob Black Janet Romano, AKA Lizzie Borden

Citations

  • 431 F.3d 150
  • 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 26861
  • 2005 WL 3312634

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that a vendor of obscene materials had standing to challenge a federal obscenity statute on behalf of its customers
  • stressing, at length, that the Third Circuit cannot ignore a Su- preme Court case directly on point unless that case has been completely abrogated
  • reaffirming strict adherence to the principle that a lower court should leave to a higher court “the prerogative of overruling its own decisions”
  • stressing, at length, that the Third Circuit cannot ignore a Supreme Court case directly on point unless that case has been completely abrogated
  • reaffirming strict adherence to the principle that a lower court should leave to a higher court “the prerogative of overruling its own decisions” (quoting Agostini v. Felton, 521 U.S. 203, 237 (1997)
  • rejecting the argument that Paris Adult Theatre I, Orito, and Reidel dealt only with a First, and not a Fourteenth, Amendment concept of privacy merely because the phrase “substantive due process” was not used in their holdings

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Judges: Smith, Stapleton, Nygaard

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