Question
Identify the court case in the United States which defined obscene content according to a three-pronged test.
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The correct answer is
Miller vs California 1973
Identifying the Obscenity Test Case
The question asks to identify the United States court case that established a specific "three-pronged test" to define obscene content.
Landmark Case: Miller vs. California
The Supreme Court case Miller vs. California (1973) is the landmark decision that defined obscenity through a specific legal standard.
The Miller Test Criteria
This ruling established the "Miller Test," which consists of three essential prongs that must all be met for material to be considered legally obscene under the First Amendment:
- The average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest.
- The work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law.
- The work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
Option C, Miller vs. California 1973, correctly identifies this pivotal case.
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