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Make No Law: The First Amendment Podcast

I Know It When I See It

Make No Law: The First Amendment Podcast

Legal Talk Network

Politics, History, Government, News

4.9644 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Host Ken White dives into the famously ambiguous obscenity standards set forth by the United States Supreme Court. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.0

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0:20.0

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0:22.7

Make money work for you.

0:24.2

Investing is not for everyone.

0:25.5

The value of investments can fall as well as rise and you may get back less than you invest.

0:29.0

Teas and Cs apply.

0:30.9

Americans go to court seeking the resolution of a dispute.

0:39.3

The government is prosecuting you and you're found either guilty or not guilty.

0:45.3

Your neighbor has wronged you and they're held to account, or not.

0:50.3

You think your rights have been violated and you ask a court to agree and make the violations stop.

0:58.5

But what happens when, instead of offering clarity or resolving the problem, the court just makes it worse?

1:06.7

What happens when a court, maybe even the United States Supreme Court, faces a tough legal

1:13.0

question and instead of answering it, makes us all even more confused than we were to begin with?

1:21.1

That's what happened to a man named Nico Jacob Ellis, a movie theater manager in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

1:28.3

In 1964, Jacob Ellis went all the way to the United States Supreme Court, seeking answers to these questions.

1:36.3

Was the French movie he showed at his theater obscene and outside the protections of the First Amendment?

1:41.3

And how could he tell next time whether a movie is

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