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- adjective Not
obscene
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Examples
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Content based discrimination against nonobscene speech runs headlong into contemporary first amendment law.
Discourse.net: Michael Masinter's Guide to the Legal Issues in U.Md. Porn Screening Case 2009
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The state may not have to pay to show nonobscene porn, but it cannot suppress it.
Discourse.net: Michael Masinter's Guide to the Legal Issues in U.Md. Porn Screening Case 2009
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As the Supreme Court has made clear, leaving aside display to minors, nonobscene sexually explicit speech enjoys full protection under the first amendment.
Discourse.net: Michael Masinter's Guide to the Legal Issues in U.Md. Porn Screening Case 2009
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As had been argued by bookstores and their advocates along with the AAP and ACLU and others, Judge Sarah Evans Barker said the law was too broad and could be applied to unquestionably lawful, nonobscene, nonpornographic materials being sold to adults.....
A Blow Against Censorship sazettel 2008
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That matters in a world where the obscene and the nonobscene do not come tied neatly into separate, easily distinguishable, packages.
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They said they found that while officers applied the law correctly in some cases, the majority involved profanities and other legal, nonobscene speech.
CBS 2 - KCAL 9 - Los Angeles - Southern California - LA Breaking News, Weather, Traffic, Sports 2010
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They said they found that while officers applied the law correctly in some cases, the majority involved profanities and other legal, nonobscene speech.
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So it seems to me that either Justice Breyer is right that COPA affects very little protected i.e., nonobscene speech — but then striking it down affects the government’s power to shield children very little.
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In a presentation made on the subject of regulating SOBs to the Texas City Attorneys Association meeting in 2006, attorneys William M. McKamie and Bradford E. Bullock of San Antonio pointed out that "generally a city may not use a zoning ordinance to effectively preclude adult businesses from locating within the city" and "[c] ase law has established that nonobscene adult entertainment is a protected First Amendment activity for which local governments must make sites reasonably available."
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Yet sucker is not merely another swear-word: first of all, although obviously reminiscent of fucker and the equally taboo cocksucker, it has for centuries successfully retained important nonobscene (although negative) meanings about people, most recently that of ` a person easily fooled. '
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