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...Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest." > Whether it also "goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor" to the point of "patent offensiveness...
...requires that the Koratron trademark be prominently shown on garments, backs up the tag with a snappy advertising campaign and a quality-control program in which Koratron technicians wash, pull, rip and rub samples to make certain that they crease as they should. The company moves swiftly against patent infringements, recently won a consent decree against Los Angeles' Swede Co. for selling Koratron-processed goods without paying royalties...
Jose Maria de Eça de Queiroz (1845-1900) presents a claim to fame that is also a patent of obscurity. He is the major novelist of a minor language: Portuguese. A scrawny chap with big buck teeth and a hook nose, Eça de Queiroz (pronounced Essa de Kay-rozh) spent most of his life as a Portuguese consul in London and Paris, fell under the spell of Flaubert and Zola, wrote a stack of realistic novels that appalled the provincial Portuguese and impressed some literate Parisians but missed fire in America. In 1962, however, a translation...
...believe that this court, during the course of this trial, would meet in a public facility with a self-admitted prostitute who was a total stranger, and make such expressions as she has sworn to. Surely a judge of the United States of America cannot be prevented by such patent perjury from performing his duty in accordance with...
...Colliflower chose jail-and thereby aroused the sympathy of the Rev. Francis Conklin, a Jesuit law professor at Spokane's Gonzaga University. Claiming a patent denial of due process, Father Conklin petitioned Montana's U.S. District Judge William J. Jameson to spring Mrs. Colliflower on a writ of habeas corpus. Judge Jameson dismissed the case on the ground that he was "without jurisdiction...