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Startling even Justice Department lawyers, the court voted 5 to 4 to up hold Publisher Ralph Ginzburg's $28,000 fine and five-year federal sentence for selling the now defunct magazine Eros and two other obscene publications through the mails. By a vote of 6 to 3, the...
Conduct v. Thought. Having reached exactly that conclusion, Justice Brennan last week tried to push the Roth decision, which he also wrote, far closer to a manageable test of conduct rather than thought. At issue in the Ginzburg case were Eros, whose chef-d'oeuvre in the disputed edition...
But at the same time, the Court seemed to stiffin its obscenity sandarcs by upholding he convictions of Raiph Glnzburg, publisher of Eros magazine, and Edward Mishkin, a Yonkers, N.Y., book dealer, for violations of Federal and New York obscenity laws. The nine justices filed a total of 14 opinions...
"We're In Trouble." Last week the Justices all but begged for mercy during the oral arguments in three obscenity cases involving no fewer than 144 publications. How could the court rule without reading all of them? "If the final burden is on this court," groaned Chief Justice Earl...
An airline ticket to romantic places. The girl is in blue chiffon, the boy in a tuxedo, and they are dancing as if Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers had coached them. They stop, gently holding each other, and then are held by an invisible silent partner, Eros perhaps, that mischievously...