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Miller v. California, 413 US 15 (1973)

That the distribution of obscene material through the mail is not protected by the First Amendment.

The Court also held that both state and federal obscenity standards in use at the time of the case were vague and overbroad. While the Court upheld Miller's conviction, it also invalidated the "community standards" tests and the Court's own test, established in Roth v. US, 354 US 476 (1957) and replaced them with a three-prong test (called the Miller Test) designed to result in more consistency and less subjectivity in judging allegedly obscene materials.

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