Showing posts with label law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label law. Show all posts

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Tropic of Cancer


This was probably the most interesting thing to come across in school today--not to underestimate the legal realism (let's get on to legal formalism already!!!)---one of many obscenity cases that arose from the publication of Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer (all the way to the SC!!!). Attorney General v. "The Tropic of Cancer"... a landmark case which was the Mass. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Tropic. Not so in Penn: Tropic "is a cesspool, an open sewer, a pit of putrefaction, a slimy gathering of all that is rotten in the debris of human depravity." So wrote a Penn justice. And I say, let's have more justice-critics!

I understand this topic is a bit out of fashion,but it is the most entertaining thing I encountered in the last three weeks (Long Live Legal Research!!!), other than the arms/prosti peddlers in District 9.

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