Kois v. Wisconsin

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Kois v. Wisconsin
newspaper article they accompany and to which they are rationally related are entitled to freedom of the press protection as incorporated against the states via the Fourteenth Amendment. Wisconsin Supreme Court
reversed and remanded.
Court membership
Chief Justice
Warren E. Burger
Associate Justices
William O. Douglas · William J. Brennan Jr.
Potter Stewart · Byron White
Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun
Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Rehnquist
Case opinions
Per curiam
ConcurrenceDouglas

Kois v. Wisconsin, 408 U.S. 229 (1972), was a ruling by the

public discourse will only embrace that which has the approval of five members of this Court."[2]

As alluded to in Justice Douglas' opinion, by this time Kaleidoscope had already been driven out of business.

See also

References

  1. ^ Kaleidoscope vol. 1, no. 20, pp. 16-17
  2. ^ Kois v. Wisconsin, 408 U.S. 229 (1972).

Further reading

  • Hagle, Timothy M. (1991). "But Do They Have to See It to Know It? The Supreme Court's Obscenity and Pornography Decisions". The Western Political Quarterly. 44 (4). The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 4: 1039–1054.
    JSTOR 448806
    .

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