Comstock Law of 1873

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104 documents for Comstock Law of 1873

- Comstock Law of 1873
The Comstock Law of 1873 was a federal law that made it a crime to sell or distribute materials that could be used for contraception ...
- West's Encyclopedia of American Law
- Com–Dor
- The Liberty to Argue Freely: Nineteenth-Century Obscenity Prosecutions and the Emergence of Modern Libertarian Free Speech Discourse
This research examines the prosecutions of four noted libertarians: free love advocate Ezra Heywood; Dr. Edward Bond Foote, a well-known New York physician and medical publisher; two prominent free thought publishers, DeRobigne M. Bennett and Moses Harman; and the subsequent libertarian campaign for broad First Amendment protection for all citizens which ensued from their arrests and prosecutions. That individuals were putting forth a libertarian philosophy of free expression in the 1870s (albeit largely under the auspices of individual rights rather than the later interpretation of social benefits), demonstrates the formative period of modern First Amendment development occurred decades earlier than is often acknowledged. The research argues that these liberal thinkers, all too cogniza...

... through the mail, vice fighter Anthony Comstock rejoiced. Free love advocates promoted a feminist ... several lawyers introduced on February 18, 1873. The law was, in essence, a time, place, and manne...
- Journalism and Communication Monographs
- Vol. 8 Nbr. 3, October 2006
- L & B 57Th Street, Inc., Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee, v. E.M. Blanchard, Inc. and Robert Blanchard, Defendants-Counter-Claimants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants., 143 F.3d 88 (2nd Cir. 1998)
...See, e.g., Merchants' Nat. Bank v. Comstock, 55 N.Y. 24 (1873) (holding that a creditor holdin...
- Federal Circuits

- Church & Dwight Company, Inc.
...In fact the National Comstock Law of 1873 made the sale of condoms for contracep...
- Encyclopedia of Major Marketing Campaigns
- A-Z
- Callie House: the pursuit of reparations as a means for social justice.
... Callie House of mail fraud under the Comstock Law of 1873. She refused a plea bargain to avoid a...
- The Journal of African American History
- Vol. 91 Nbr. 3, June 2006
- Conforming to the rule of law: when person and human being finally mean the same thing in Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudence.
...(341) These efforts culminated in 1873 with Congress passing the Comstock law that banned...
- Issues in Law & Medicine
- Vol. 22 Nbr. 2-3, September 2006
- Ginsberg v. New York, 390 U.S. 629 (1968)
... of our preceptor in this field, Anthony Comstock, who waged his war against "obscenity" from the ye... the Federal Anti-Obscenity Act of March 3, 1873. 17 Stat. 598. It was he who was also responsible ...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Reproduction
... conservative watchdog was Anthony Comstock, a New York businessman who led a national reform ... work resulted in the federal COMSTOCK LAW OF 1873, which criminalized the transmission and receipt o...
- West's Encyclopedia of American Law
- Po–San
- Women's Rights
...The most famous was the federal COMSTOCK LAW OF 1873, which criminalized the transmission a...
- West's Encyclopedia of American Law
- Ter–Z
- Obscenity
...The federal COMSTOCK LAW OF 1873 criminalized the transmission and rece...
- West's Encyclopedia of American Law
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