Osborne v. Ohio, 18 April 1990

The Supreme Court.held that a state could consti tutionally proscribe the possession of child pornography because protection of the victims of child pornography outweighed other concerns. The case arose when Ohio police found explicit pictures" of adolescent males during the execution of a search warrant. The resident was found guilty of violating an Ohio law that prohibits possession of child pornography.

Leathers v. Medlock, 16 April 1991

By a seven-to-two vote, the Supreme Court found that a differential tax structure for various media did not interfere with First Amendment rights and did not present the potential for censorship of ideas. The case brought by Arkansas's cable industry argued that the state's policy of taxing cable but not print media was unconstitutional because the law might suppress the expression of a particular point of view.

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