Legal Opinion
Massachusetts v. Oakes
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 21, 1989No. 87-1651PublishedCited by 179 opinions
1Judgment of the CourtJustice O’Connor
in which The Chief Justice, Justice White, and Justice Kennedy join.
This case involves an overbreadth challenge to a Massachusetts criminal statute generally prohibiting adults from posing or exhibiting nude minors for purposes of visual representation or reproduction in any book, magazine, pamphlet, motion picture, photograph, or picture.
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The statute at issue m this case, Mass. Gen. Laws § 272:29A (1986), was enacted in 1982.1 It provides as follows:
“Whoever with knowledge that a person is a child under eighteen years of age, or whoever while in posses*579sion of such facts that he should have…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Broadrick v. OklahomaSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Dombrowski v. PfisterSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- DeFunis v. OdegaardSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Village of Schaumburg v. Citizens for a Better EnvironmentSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Brockett v. Spokane Arcades, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1985
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3Cited by179 opinions
- Osborne v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
- Holland v. GoordCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2014
- United States v. RybickiCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2003
- Coral Springs Street Systems, Inc. v. City of SunriseCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2004
- Federation of Advertising Industry Representatives, Inc., an Illinois Not-For-Profit Corporation v. City of ChicagoCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2003
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