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...Alexander Ginzburg called them, that The First Circle is most harrowing. Solzhenitsyn writes of one of these camp complexes as "a kingdom bigger than France." Each camp bore a bucolic code name such as Lake Camp, Steppe Camp, Sandy Camp. "You'd think there must be some great, unknown poet in the secret police, a new Pushkin," writes Solzhenitsyn. "He's not quite up to a full-length poem, but he gives these wonderful poetic names to concentration camps." These passages obviously parallel Solzhenitsyn's own experiences; after his years in Mavrino, he was sent to such a camp...
Fortas' interpretations vary, depending on the case. In 1966, he voted with the 5-to-4 majority to uphold the conviction of Eros Publisher Ralph Ginzburg on grounds that he pandered to prurient interests by using overly suggestive advertising. But that did not make much of an impression upon Eastland, Thurmond and critics even farther to the right. In a large mailing, the fanatically right-wing Liberty Lobby accused Fortas of being a convinced revolutionary and a supporter of the pornography industry...
...Ginzburg was unchastened. Prepared with two press releases, one for a verdict in his favor, one for the verdict that the jury delivered, he immediately announced his intention to appeal. Whether he eventually wins or loses, one thing is certain: few individuals have been as influential as Ralph Ginzburg in pushing the courts toward a refinement of legal definitions...
Motive & Malice. Ginzburg began that process with the publication of a magazine called Eros and the sale of a book called The Housewife's Handbook on Selective Promiscuity. Decisions already in the law books told him that his products could only be proscribed if they had no redeeming social value- and he seemed to be challenging the Government to prove they did not. The Supreme Court answered the challenge by surprising Ginzburg with a new rule: his methods of advertising and distribution, said the court, made him guilty of peddling pornography. It upheld a five-year prison sentence, which...
...charge of libel stick, the Supreme Court has held, "there must be sufficient evidence to permit the conclusion that the defendant in fact entertained serious doubts as to the truth of his publication." If he did, he was guilty of recklessness and malice, and, as a result, libel. Ginzburg may yet persuade an appeals court that he was neither reckless nor malicious...