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I moved

I moved the main Miller v. California case back here because it's invariably the case intended. The others are at the bottom just in case someone sees a reason to create them. Jamesday 03:26, 24 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and this article contain no entry on Pope v. Illinois, which clarifies and restricts the "community standards" test described here significantly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.16.59.182 (talk) 21:31, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Duplication

It seems paragraphs 5 & 6 of the "History" section in this article is a word-for-word duplication of paragraphs 6 & 7 of the "The case" section in Roth v. United States. I don't know if this is acceptable Wiki-policy or not, but I thought I'd mention it in case it's not. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.129.94.61 (talk) 19:04, 8 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I removed it. Malke 2010 (talk) 23:08, 3 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Synthesis

I added the Synthesis template for whole article. This article contains large amounts of analysis based solely on primary sources (the case opinions) not independent analysis (secondary sources). - Stillwaterising (talk) 18:55, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

texts and citations

I have added some citations for New York v. Ferber, Ashcroft V. Free Speech Coalition, Ashcroft v. ACLU, and a citation for Justice Potter Stewart rulings and quotes.
I have added text concerning Justice rulings prior to the miller case, and text pertaining to community standard and the Internet.Ron Q Craig (talk) 02:56, 31 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Removed section and added new one

I removed the "case law" section because it repeated verbatim the 3 prongs of the Miller test that were already established in earlier sections multiple times.

Avivaw23 (talk) 20:01, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Also separated last section into "Definition of obscenity post-Miller" and "Effects of the decision" to separate legal and other effects. Agree with above user that the Pope v Illinois decision is important but doesn't have a page.

Avivaw23 (talk) 17:28, 27 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]