obscenity-standard
4 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-727 | Douglas M. Folts v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-12-19 | Pending | Response Waived | constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech military-law obscenity-standard servicemembers | Whether the military's obscenity standard is unconstitutional under Parker v. Levy and Miller v. California. |
| 22-7751 | David Paul Bickford v. Maryland | Maryland | 2023-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | charging-document child-photography child-pornography constitutional-law first-amendment new-york-v-ferber obscenity-standard parental-rights sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation | If the First Amendment case of New York v Ferber, 458 US 747 (1982), describes the essential elements required for 'all legislation in [the] sensitive… |
| 22-6519 | Thomas Alan Arthur v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-defense defendant-rights due-process evidence-exclusion free-speech harmful-error harmless-error judicial-review miller-test obscenity obscenity-standard | Should this Court adopt the Seventh Circuit's rule that where a district court erroneously excludes evidence that makes up the entirety of a defendant… |
| 19-5577 | Spencer Salcedo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | community-standards constitutional-protection due-process first-amendment free-speech hard-core-sexual-conduct obscenity obscenity-standard pornography sexual-content | Whether a still image of an erect penis portrays the kind of 'patently offensive,' 'hard core sexual conduct' that qualifies as constitutionally unpro… |