Jesus Castillo, Supreme Court, And Free Speech

Posted by Hemos on Thursday August 7, 2003 @05:42AM from the bad-precedents dept.

I've been following the Jesus Castillo case for a while. The case itself is an obscenity charge for selling an adult comic to an adult undercover police officer in Dallas. Recently, the US Supreme Court denied his appeal, with the notion that obscenity is a state-level affair, despite the First Amendment being a Federal law. There's also an interview with the head of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, and some good ruminations from Neil Gaiman on the subject. Bad precedents for free speech - the CBDLF donations and giving to the EFF are Good Things.

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Court doc by Adam9 · 2003-08-07 05:49 · Score: 0, Offtopic

If the case interests you, you may want to read the court document of the judgment.
Re:This may be 'normal' in those there parts ... by DNS-and-BIND · 2003-08-07 06:04 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Wow, talk about a hard-left nutcase. Good thing you have a secure website with an invalid certificate...someone might be eavesdropping on you!!!

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