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Miller v. California
Court Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
Date decided June 21, 1973
Followed by
Roth v. United States

Holding

Simply appealing to a person's prurient interest doesn't make a content obscene.

Reasons

SCOTUS majority announced, an obscenity must portray sexual conduct in a patently offensive way,

have no serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

Rule

Miller test

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