State v. Hudson County News Co.

The definition of obscenity is imprecise and the line it draws between the obscene and non-obscene is obviously thin and obscure—so thin and obscure that many thoughtful students believe that the only workable approach is to confine obscenity to what is known as hard-core *267pornography. Although that term itself presents some difficulties, they are much lesser in nature. See Lockhart & McClure, “Censorship of Obscenity: The Developing Constitutional Standards,” 45 Minn. L. Rev. 5, 58-68 (1960). The Supreme Court’s high solicitude for the constitutional freedoms of expression and its actual…