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W. LAWFUL CENSORSHIP RARELY JUSTIFIED
Any attempt to restrict the liberties of freedom of speech and the press
must be justified by clear public interest, threatened not doubtfully or
remotely, but by clear and present danger.
Government of Virgin Islands v. Brodhurse, D.C. Virgin Islands, 1968,
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285 F. Supp. 831. See also, In re Porterfield, 1946, 168 P2d 706,
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28 C. 2d 91
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In very narrow circumstances, government may proscribe content on basis
of imminent danger of grave substantive evil.
Collin v. Smith, C.S. Ill. 1978, 578 F. 2d 1197, certiorari denied
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99 S Ct 291, 439 U.S. 916, 58 L.Ed 2d 264
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The clear and present danger test is not a technical legal doctrine or
formula for adjudicating cases; properly applied, the test requires a
court to make its own inquiry into the imminence and the magnitude of the
danger said to flow from the particular utterance and then to balance the
character of the evil, as well as its likelihood, against the need for
free and unfettered expression; a court should also weigh the possibility
that other measures will serve a state's interest.
Landmark Communications, Inc. v. Virginia, 435 US 829, 98 S Ct 1535,
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56 L.Ed 2d 1
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A system of prior restraint on expression avoid constitutional infirmity
only if it takes place under procedural safeguards designed to obviate the
dangers of a censorship system. (Douglas, J. dissented from this holding.)
Southeastern Promotions, Ltd. v. Conrad, 420 U.S. 546, 95 S Ct 1239,
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43 L.Ed 2d 448
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The rule where federally protected rights have been invaded is that
courts will be alert to adjust their remedies so as to grant the necessary
relief.
Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody, 422 US 405, 95 S Ct 2362, 45 L.Ed 2d 280
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Under the free speech guaranty of the Federal Constitution's First
Amendment, speakers cannot be made to wait for years for the judicial
determination of standards under a statute, before the speakers are able
to speak with a measure of security.
Riley v. National Federation of Blind, Inc. 487 US 781, 108 S Ct 2667,
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101 L.Ed 2d 668
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Z. CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its
jurisdiction.
Thomas Jefferson, "A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom", 1779.
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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this; that we may think
what we like and say what we think.
Oliver Wendall Holmes, Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast-Table, 1859.
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RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED,
Charlie Gutierrez
In Pro Per
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