Assignment

Prepare a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper on sexually explicit communication or on fair trial.

Explicit Communication Paper

• Critique the regulation of current obscenity laws. Use your text and outside research to support your paper, and address the following:
  • Describe the Miller Test. What are community standards? Are community standards an appropriate way to determine obscenity?
  • How do legislators use time, manner, and place restrictions, such as zoning, to regulate the expression of obscene or erotic material?
  • How does federal regulation attempt to control obscenity?

Fair Trial Paper

• Analyze the legal balance between free press and the following methods by which the courts ensure a fair trial:
  • Traditional judicial remedies
  • Restrictive orders to control publicity
  • Closure of proceedings and sealed documents