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Judge Arthur Sherman '50 ordered that court records indicate that Robert F. Burns of East Boston and Lawrence R. Countryman '83 of Cambridge admitted only to misdemeanor charges of lewd and lascivious behavior...
There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise any Constitutional problem. These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or "fighting" words--those which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace...such utterances are no essential part of any exposition of ideas, and are of such slight social value...that any benefit that may be derived from them is clearly out-weighed by the social interest in order and morality...
Obscenity. This week the court will review a Dallas ordinance that imposes strict licensing and zoning requirements on sexually oriented businesses. Later this term an Ohio case will ask whether there is a First Amendment right to possess lewd photographs of children. In last term's dial-a-porn and flag- burning cases, the Justices maintained a tolerant free-speech stance; court watchers are waiting to see what change may occur...
...student at the University of Minnesota. (Yes!) He admitted to having tickets behind the goal to every Golden Gopher hockey game, including the last one. (Yes!) Then he made a lewd comment to one of my friends...
...battle against sin, a warrior is only as good as his freshest kill, and that is why Hurlbut is riding shotgun this gray Friday afternoon during an assault on a trafficker in lewd videos. At the house, tires screech, and officers leap out with drawn .45s. "If anything's going to go wrong, it's in the first two minutes," says Hurlbut, taking it all in from the Chrysler. Nothing does, but the raid nets only a few small-time video wholesalers. However, clues quickly lead deputies eight miles away to a cramped trailer that proves a cornucopia of hard...