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• United States obscenity law

• Report of the New York State Joint Legislative Committee to Study the Publication and Dissemination of Offensive and Obscene Material (1962), by New York State Joint Legislative Committee Studying the Publication and Dissemination of Offensive and Obscene Material (page images at HathiTrust; US access onny)
• "Obscene" Literature and Constitutional Law: A Forensic Defense of Freedom of the Press (1911), by Theodore Schroeder (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pornography and Civil Rights: A New Day for Women's Equality, by Andrea Dworkin and Catharine A. MacKinnon (HTML at nostatusquo.com)
• Music Lyrics and Commerce: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Competitiveness of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, February 11 and May 5, 1994 (Washington: GPO, 1994), by United States House. Committee on Energy and Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comic Books, Municipal Control of Sale and Distribution: A Preliminary Study (report #124; Washington: National Institute of Municipal Law Officers, 1948), by Charles S. Rhyne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stone walls do not : the chronicle of a captivity (William Faro, 1930), by Samuel Roth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Technical report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography (For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1971), by United States. Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, Frederick H. Wagman, and William B. Lockhart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Censorship: government and obscenity. (Helicon, 1963), by Terrence J. Murphy (page images at HathiTrust)
• To the pure ... A study of obscenity and the censor, by Morris L. Ernst and William Seagle. (Kraus Reprint, 1969), by Morris Leopold Ernst and William Seagle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The report. (For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1970), by United States. Commission on Obscenity and Pornography (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the broadcast of violent, indecent, and obscene material. (Federal Communications Commission, 1975), by United States Federal Communications Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Child pornography hearing before the Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, on S. 2856 ... December 10, 1982. (U.S. G.P.O., 1983), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice (page images at HathiTrust)
• Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act of 1988 hearings before the Subcommittee on Crime of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, second session, on H.R. 1213, H.R. 1438, H.R. 2605, H.R. 3889, and H.R. 4257 ... April 28, June 16, and August 11, 1988. (U.S. G.P.O., 1989), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime (page images at HathiTrust)
• Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act and Pornography Victims Protection Act of 1987 hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, second session, on S. 703 ... S. 2033 ... June 8, 1988. (U.S. G.P.O., 1990), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legislative proposals to protect children from inappropriate materials on the Internet : hearing before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection of the Committee on Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, second session, on H.R. 3783, H.R. 774, H.R. 1180, H.R. 1964, H.R. 3177, and H.R. 3442, September 11, 1998. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1998), by Trade United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications (page images at HathiTrust)
• Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2005 : report (to accompany H.R. 310) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). (U.S. G.P.O., 2005), by United States House. Committee on Energy and Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Obscenity prosecution and the Constitution : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, March 16, 2005. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2008), by Civil Rights United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution (page images at HathiTrust)
• Child pornography : hearing before the Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, on S. 2856 ... December 10, 1982. (U.S. G.P.O., 1983), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice (page images at HathiTrust)
• Telephone Decency Act of 1987 : hearing before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, first session, on H.R. 1786 ... September 30, 1987. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1988), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exclusion of certain publications from the mails : hearing before the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, House of Representatives, Sixty-third Congress, third session, on H.R. 20644 and H.R. 21183, bills to exclude certain publications from the mails. February 1, 1915. (G.P.O., 1915), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Post Roads (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antiobscenity legislation. Hearings, Ninety-first Congress ... (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1970), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 3 (page images at HathiTrust)
• To create a Commission on Noxious and Obscene Matters and Materials. Hearings, Eighty-ninth Congress, first session, on H. R. 7465 ... September 1, 2, 8, 14, 1965. (U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1965), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Select Subcommittee on Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Obscenity in the mail. Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, second session ... August 11, November 17 and 18, 1970. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1970), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Postal Operations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act of 1988 : hearings before the Subcommittee on Crime of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, second session, on H.R. 1213, H.R. 1438, H.R. 2605, H.R. 3889, and H.R. 4257 ... April 28, June 16, and August 11, 1988. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1989), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime (page images at HathiTrust)
• Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act and Pornography Victims Protection Act of 1987 : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, second session, on S. 703 ... S. 2033 ... June 8, 1988. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1990., 1990), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children's Internet Protection Act (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2000), by United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children's Internet Protection Act (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2001), by United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Obscenity. Hearing, Ninety-first Congress, second session, on S. 3220 ... September 1, 1970. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1970), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Progress report, July 1969. (Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, 1969), by United States. Commission on Obscenity and Pornography (page images at HathiTrust)
• Law of lotteries, frauds and obscenity in the mails (F. H. Thomas Law Book Co., 1903), by John Lilburn Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children's Internet Protection Act : report of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on S. 97. (U.S. G.P.O., 1999), by United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prevent mailing unsolicited sexually oriented ads : hearing before the Subcommittee on Postal Personnel and Modernization of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, first session, on H.R. 1210 ... September 21, 1989. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1990), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Postal Personnel and Modernization (page images at HathiTrust)
• Obscene material available via the Internet : hearing before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection of the Committee on Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, May 23, 2000. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2000), by Trade United States. Congres. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the indignation meeting held in Faneuil Hall, Thursday evening, August 1, 1878 : to protest against the injury done to the freedom of the press by the conviction and imprisonment of Ezra H. Heywood. (B.R. Tucker, 1878), by Benjamin Ricketson Tucker and John Wilson and Son (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unconstitutionality of all laws against "obscene" literature (Free Speech League, 1908), by Theodore Schroeder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Protecting postal patrons from obscene and obnoxious mail and Communist propaganda. : Hearings before the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, Eighty-eighth Congress, first session, on H.R. 142, H.R. 319, and similar bills. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1963), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bipartisan Independent Commission unanimously opposes specific content restrictions on NEA-funded art, urges sweeping reforms in arts endowment system. (Washington, DC : Independent Commission, 1990., 1990), by National Endowment for the Arts and Independent Commission (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Strengthening the law prohibiting mailing of obscene matter ... : report [to accompany H.R. 4383] (G.P.O., 1958), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harry A. Levinson, 9527 Brighton Way, Beverly Hills, California, plaintiff, v. Arthur E. Summerfield, individually and as Postmaster General of the United States, Washington D.C., defendent : points and authorities in support of mottion for preliminary injunction, in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. (Washington, 1955), by Edward De Grazia, Arthur E. Summerfield, Harry A. Levinson, United States District Court (District of Columbia), and United States Post Office Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• Protecting postal patrons from obscene mail : hearing before the Subcommittee on Postal Operations of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives. Eighty-ninth Congress, first session, on H.R. 980 and related bills, bills to provide for the return of obscene mail matter. March 30, 1965. (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1965), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Postal Operations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Regulation of sexually explicit commercial telephone conversations ("dial-a-porn") : legal and constitutional analysis (Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 1988), by Rita Ann Reimer, Mark Gurevitz, and Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• The report. (For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1970), by United States. Commission on Obscenity and Pornography and William B. Lockhart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Issues raised in connection with federal and state obscenity laws (1966-1967) (Library of Congress Legislative Reference Service, 1967), by Elizabeth Yadlosky and Library of Congress Legislative Reference Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Federal obscenity and child pornography law (Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 1988), by Henry Cohen and Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Federal obscenity and child pornography law (Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 1990), by Henry Cohen and Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook for federal obscenity prosecutions (The Section, 1972), by United States. Dept. of Justice. Criminal Division. Administrative Regulations Section (page images at HathiTrust)
• Obscene and pandering advertisement mail matter. Hearing, Ninetieth Congress, first session. (U.S. Print. Off., 1967), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Postal Operations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Regulation of obscenity : a compilation of Federal and State statutes and analysis of selected Supreme Court opinions (Library of Congress?], 1972), by Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service and Paul S. Wallace (page images at HathiTrust)
• Return of obscene mail : Mr. Dulski, from the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, submitted the following report (to accompany H.R. 980). (U.S. G.P.O.], 1965), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Obscenity laws of the various states : a brief summary. (The Department, 1966), by Arkansas. General Assembly. Legislative Council. Research Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• The report. (For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1970), by United States. Commission on Obscenity and Pornography (page images at HathiTrust)

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