Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble." ^ In the first case, Publisher Ralph Ginzburg appealed a five-year federal sentence for putting the now defunct magazine Eros in the mails, along with a "newsletter" called Liaison and a socalled psychological study titled The Housewife's Handbook on Selective Promiscuity. Ginzburg's Lawyer Sidney Dickstein argued that the court could find "social importance" merely by reading the testimony of assorted literary eminences. While conceding that Liaison was "vulgar" and "sophomoric" ("But that's no reason to put a man in jail"), Dickstein called Handbook "useful" to women "whose normal sexual drives beset them with...
Government Lawyer Paul Bender, on the other hand, pointed to unanimous lower court decisions that "these publications are obscene, filthy, vile, lewd and lascivious." Justice William O. Douglas asked Bender about a Baptist minister who had testified earlier that he used the Handbook in "counseling." The lower court, said Bender, "either found he was lying-or that he wasn't a typical minister." When pressed further, though, Bender conceded that while Liaison is "a collection of dirty jokes," Ginzburg's other works are "borderline material." In short, he was saying that the Justices must read them...
...even more unavoidable in the second case, in which Edward Mishkin appealed a three-year New York sentence for publishing 140 weird -little books (Sex Switch, Raw Dames, etc.) devoted to sadism and masochism-typically spiced by scenes of naked girls whipping one another. Mishkin's New York lawyer, Emanuel Redfield, confronted the Supreme Court with a new headache: "Only obscene books can be proscribed. Are sadism and masochism synonyms for obscenity? If so, there is no end to the literature that may be prohibited...
Amsterdam is not so much an advocate of more civil rights as he is a crack criminal lawyer seeking better protection of existing rights. The rights themselves have been won-from free expression in 1789 to equal voting in " 1965. And yet, he says, the American citizen may still be "arrested, jailed, fined under guise of bail and put to every risk and rancor of the criminal process if he expresses himself unpopularly." In the years ahead, Amsterdam intends to concentrate on making "the paper right a practical protection...
...Villa Capri Motor Hotel in Austin last week. Nobis also, it developed, had an attorney. While Tommy drank half a dozen Cokes, gulped down two club sandwiches and said nothing, Adams tried to find out what Atlanta had offered so he could top it. Uh, uh, said the lawyer: "Just give us your best deal, and we'll let you know in ten days." Adams suggested a figure of $250,000 or so -and was more than a little astonished at the reaction. "They kept poker faces throughout the whole thing...