In _________________, the Supreme Court handed down new legal guidelines for obscenity where the Court expressed the view that obscenity is "utterly without redeeming social importance" and thus entitled to no First Amendment protection.

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The Supreme Court handed down new legal guidelines for obscenity in Roth v. United States (1957), where the Court expressed the view that obscenity is "utterly without redeeming social importance" and thus entitled to no First Amendment protection. Regina v. Hicklin (1868) was a British case that laid down the Hicklin test for obscenity, which was later rejected by the US Supreme Court. Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964) dealt with the question of whether the showing of a film containing obscene material was protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. While the case is notable for Justice Potter Stewart's famous observation that he could not precisely define what constitutes obscenity but he knows it when he sees it, it did not establish new legal guidelines for obscenity.

In _________________, the Supreme Court Handed Down New Legal Guidelines