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” but I argued that there was no real difference between possession and exhibition:

from having something thrust on them in an unwilling manner and also to protect youngsters.

I would submit that the Constitution has a clear answer to that. It must permit the film to be shown in a way to minimize your exposure to it and to permit you both fully to see and to avoid being exposed to the contents of the film.

which the prosecutor had argued was “irrelevant” to this case and which

who I had known when I clerked for Judge Bazelon. Burger and Bazelon were arch enemies

a Harvard Law School professor and one of the nation’s preeminent constitutional lawyers

hundreds of readers came forward and volunteered their assistance. It also generated numerous other stories—presenting our side of the case.

and the people urging criminal prosecution were Harvard students. The people who these students wanted to see prosecuted were other students

” one complained. “We shouldn’t have to be subjected to abuse and degradation right in our own living room.”

Gloria Steinem had written an article in Ms. magazine about Deep Throat and the exploitation of its female lead

but against lawyers who represented them on First Amendment grounds. When I and several friends opened a Kosher deli in Harvard Square

then it seems to me that you can’t be in favor of a boycott against stores that sell Playboy and Penthouse

and the issue was achieving some notoriety in the media. I had

who had repeatedly won reelection on an uncompromising law-and-order platform. When he learned that the twin evils of obscenity and Harvard might merge on that fateful night

Carl Stork and Nathan J. Hagen—the co-presidents of the Quincy House Film Society—received telephone calls from the D.A.’s office directing them to be in Judge Charles R. Alberti’s courtroom at two o’clock for a hearing. Stork and Hagen tried to call me in my office. But I was...