Redrup v. New York

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Litigants = Redrup v. New York
ArgueDateA = October 10
ArgueDateB = 11
ArgueYear = 1966
DecideDate = May 8
DecideYear = 1967
FullName = Robert Redrup, Petitioners v. State of New York; William L. Austin, Petitioner v. State of Kentucky; Gent, et al., Appellants v. State of Arkansas
USVol = 386
USPage = 767
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Holding = Written materials that were not sold to minors, or foisted on unwilling audiences were constitutionally protected.
SCOTUS = 1965-1967
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"Redrup v. New York", ussc|386|767|1967 was a May 8, 1967 ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States, widely regarded as the end of American censorship of written fiction. Robert Redrup was a Times Square newsstand clerk who sold two of William Hamling's Greenleaf Classics paperback pulp sex novels, "Lust Pool" and "Shame Agent", to a plainclothes police officer. He was tried and convicted in 1965.

With financial backing from Hamling, Redrup appealed his case to the Supreme Court where his conviction was overturned by 7-2. The court's final ruling affirmed that written materials that were not sold to minors, or foisted on unwilling audiences were constitutionally protected, thereby "de facto" ending American censorship of written material. After this decision, the Supreme Court systematically and summarily reversed, without further opinion, scores of obscenity rulings involving paperback sex books.

ee also

*"Roth v. United States", ussc|354|476|1957
*"Miller v. California", ussc|413|15|1973

Further reading

* cite journal | last = Hagle | first = Timothy M. | authorlink = | coauthors = | year = 1991 | month = | title = But Do They Have to See It to Know It? The Supreme Court's Obscenity and Pornography Decisions | journal = The Western Political Quarterly | volume = 44 | issue = 4 | pages = 1039–1054 | doi = 10.2307/448806 | url = | accessdate = | quote =
* cite journal | last = Kobylka | first = Joseph F. | authorlink = | coauthors = | year = 1987 | month = | title = A Court-Created Context for Group Litigation: Libertarian Groups and Obscenity | journal = The Journal of Politics | volume = 49 | issue = 4 | pages = 1061–1078 | doi = 10.2307/2130784 | url = | accessdate = | quote =