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...wrote U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, has "indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages." But sex and obscenity, he pointed out, are not synonymous-and there has been plenty of disagreement about when the subject of absorbing interest becomes one of prurient*interest. It was in a first major attempt to settle that issue that the Supreme Court, in a split decision, last week upheld U.S. and California criminal obscenity statutes...
...Literati's Battle. Four Supreme Court Justices (Felix Frankfurter, Harold Burton, Tom Clark and Charles Evans Whittaker) joined Brennan in the majority opinion affirming the convictions. Mail-Order Man Alberts' 14th Amendment claim was tossed out the window in short order. But the majority dealt searchingly with Roth's First Amendment argument. Wrote Brennan: "All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance-unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion-have the full protection of the guaranties, unless excludable because they encroach upon the limited area of more important interests...
...Hugo Black and William Douglas than to the other court veterans. But capable Administrator Warren aspired to be more than a mere dissenter, and he is credited with using his considerable persuasive talents to work out majorities for the liberal views. With the appointment of New Jersey Democrat William Brennan, there was formed a B.B.D. & W. dominant liberal bloc-Black, Brennan, Douglas and Warren. While no court bloc is ever hard and fast, this group-over a wide range of cases-frequently managed to make itself into a majority with support from Justices Harlan and Frankfurter...
Associate Justice William J. Brennan...
William J.' Brennan Jr., associate justice of the Supreme Court D.C.L...