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gptkbp:instanceOf
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gptkb:United_States_Supreme_Court_case
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gptkbp:arguedDate
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2009-10-06
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gptkbp:challengedStatute
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gptkb:18_U.S.C._§_48
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gptkbp:citation
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559 U.S. 460
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gptkbp:date
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2010-04-20
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gptkbp:decidedBy
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gptkb:Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States
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gptkbp:dissentingOpinionBy
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gptkb:Samuel_Alito
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gptkbp:docketNumber
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08-769
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gptkbp:fullName
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gptkb:United_States_v._Robert_J._Stevens
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gptkbp:heldBy
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18 U.S.C. § 48 is substantially overbroad, and therefore invalid under the First Amendment.
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gptkbp:historicalPeriod
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Stevens convicted in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
Conviction affirmed by Third Circuit Court of Appeals, then reversed
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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United States v. Stevens
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gptkbp:legalIssue
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Is 18 U.S.C. § 48, which criminalizes the commercial creation, sale, or possession of certain depictions of animal cruelty, facially invalid under the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment?
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gptkbp:majorityOpinionBy
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gptkb:Anthony_Kennedy
gptkb:Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg
gptkb:Sonia_Sotomayor
gptkb:Antonin_Scalia
gptkb:Clarence_Thomas
gptkb:John_G._Roberts,_Jr.
gptkb:John_Paul_Stevens
gptkb:Stephen_Breyer
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gptkbp:petitioner
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gptkb:United_States
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gptkbp:reargued
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no
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gptkbp:relatedConcept
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overbreadth doctrine
unconstitutional statute
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gptkbp:relatedTo
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gptkb:Chaplinsky_v._New_Hampshire
gptkb:United_States_v._Alvarez
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gptkbp:response
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gptkb:Robert_J._Stevens
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gptkbp:result
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Statute declared unconstitutional
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gptkbp:subject
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gptkb:First_Amendment
freedom of speech
animal cruelty
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:First_Amendment
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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5
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