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 David Hudson serves as an attorney for the First
Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. The Center, which is funded
by the Freedom Forum, seeks to foster a greater public understanding and
appreciation for First Amendment rights and values. Hudson writes for the
Freedom Forum's online publication, The Freedom Forum Online, and other
leading publications devoted to First Amendment issues. He contributes regularly to
the American Bar Association's Preview of United
States Supreme Court Cases, the Commercial Speech
Digest and the ABA
Journal.
Obscenity represents one of the more colorful and controversial
areas of First Amendment jurisprudence. The U.S. Supreme Court has
struggled mightily over the years in trying to draw the line between
protected expression and unprotected obscenity. This course introduces
participants to the leading cases and tests their knowledge with a series
of fact patterns from real appellate cases.
Click here to take this course.
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