Docket No. | Argument | Opinion | Vote | Author | Term |
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12-348 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | OT 2012 |
Issue: (1) Whether jury decisions that material is obscene – either obscene for all viewers or just for minors – should be reviewed using the independent appellate review mandated by Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of U.S., Inc. and Jenkins v. Georgia, as there is a split on this question among state courts of last resort and federal circuit courts; and (2) whether this Court should provide lower courts with a benchmark precedent about what material is “obscene as to minors” or “harmful to minors,” by deciding whether roughly drawn pictures, lacking in sexual content, sent by a father to his wife to be shown to his young child are properly viewed as “obscene as to minors.”
Date | Proceedings and Orders |
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Sep 6 2012 | Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 22, 2012) |
Oct 18 2012 | Order extending time to file response to petition to and including November 21, 2012. |
Oct 22 2012 | Brief amicus curiae of National Coalition Against Censorship filed. |
Oct 22 2012 | Brief amicus curiae of Professor Paul R. Abramson filed. |
Nov 21 2012 | Brief of respondent Utah in opposition filed. |
Dec 3 2012 | Reply of petitioner Eric Leon Butt, Jr. filed. (Distributed) |
Dec 5 2012 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of January 4, 2013. |
Jan 3 2013 | Record Requested . |
Jan 16 2013 | Record received from the Seventh Judicial District Court, Monticello Department (electronically filed). |
Jan 22 2013 | Record received the Supreme Court of Utah (electronically filed). |
Jan 23 2013 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of February 15, 2013. |
Feb 19 2013 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of February 22, 2013. |
Feb 25 2013 | Petition DENIED. |
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