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- Title: United States v. Various Articles of Obscene Merchandise
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- Release Date : January 18, 1983
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 77 KB
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The government appeals from a judgment of the Southern District of New York, entered by Judge Robert W. Sweet after a hearing, upon his opinion holding that various "hard-core" pornographic articles of merchandise (video cassettes and magazines) seized by the government were not "patently offensive" under contemporary community standards and hence not "obscene" within the meaning of 19 U.S.C. § 1305(a) (1976 & Supp. V 1981) and dismissing the governments complaint under that statute for forfeiture of the merchandise. 565 F. Supp. 7. An earlier opinion by the district court reaching the same result had been remanded because of use of an incorrect legal standard for determining obscenity. United States v. Various Articles of Obscene Merchandise, Schedule No. 2102, 678 F.2d 433 (2d Cir. 1982) (per curiam). We affirm.