Malle's The Lovers ( Les Amants, 1958 ), which also starred Moreau, caused major controversy due to its sexual content, leading to a landmark U. S. Supreme Court case regarding the legal definition of obscenity.

In 1933 Cerf won United States v. One Book Called Ulysses, a landmark court case against government censorship, and thereafter published James Joyce's unabridged Ulysses for the first time in the United States ( one chapter had been published in a Chicago-based literary magazine, which had led to its being found " a work of obscenity ").

In 1973 the landmark Supreme Court decision in Miller v. California which re-enabled local obscenity prosecutions after a long hiatus sounded the death knell for much of the remaining underground press ( including underground comix ), largely by making the local head shops which stocked underground papers and comix in communities around the country more vulnerable to prosecution.

The book was banned by Boston courts in 1962 due to obscenity, but that decision was reversed in a landmark 1966 opinion by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

Grove Press, the publishers of the book, had a long history with Burroughs dating back to the early 1960s when they published the first North American edition of Naked Lunch, sparking a landmark obscenity case.

The Supreme Court of the United States held in its landmark case, McGowan v. Maryland ( 1961 ), that Maryland's blue laws violated neither the Free Exercise Clause nor the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

In a landmark case, the European Court of Justice ( ECJ ) ruled on 5 July 1994 against the British practice of importing produce from northern Cyprus based on certificates of origin and phytosanitary certificates granted by the de facto authorities.

This compilation of a dozen accounts ( half of which, including the case of Morgan, had been previously published ) stands as a landmark work, a Puritan precursor of the true-crime miscellanies that, stripped of all religious intent, would become a staple of the genre in subsequent centuries.

Landeros v. Flood was a landmark case used to purposely change the behavior of doctors, and encourage them to report suspected child abuse.

This was later reversed during 2002 in a landmark case before the US Supreme Court, Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, in which the divided court, in a 5-4 decision, ruled the Ohio school voucher plan constitutional and removed any constitutional barriers to similar voucher plans in the future, with moderate justices Anthony Kennedy and Sandra Day O ' Connor and conservative justices William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas in the majority.

In the landmark case of Frendak v. United States, the court ruled that the insanity defense cannot be imposed upon an unwilling defendant if an intelligent defendant voluntarily wishes to forego the defense.

The result was the landmark " palimony " case, Marvin v. Marvin, 18 Cal.

Sanger's efforts contributed to the landmark U. S. Supreme Court case which legalized contraception in the United States.

Marbury v. Madison,, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution.

In Escola, now widely recognized as a landmark case in American law, Justice Traynor laid the foundation for Greenman with these words:

State Street Bank v. Signature Financial Group is the landmark case in which the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled ( July 23, 1998 ) that a computer algorithm can be patented to the extent that it produces " a useful, concrete and tangible result ".

While the patent was initially rejected by the patent office as being a purely mathematical invention, following 12 years of appeals, Pardo and Landau won a landmark court case at the CCPA ( Predecessor Court of the Federal Circuit ) overturning the Patent Office in 1983 — establishing that " something does not cease to become patentable merely because the point of novelty is in an algorithm.

The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was a landmark American legal case in 1925 in which high school science teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach evolution in any state-funded school.

** Oral arguments begin in the landmark U. S. Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia, 388 U. S. 1 ( 1967 ), challenging the State of Virginia's statutory scheme to prevent marriages between persons solely on the basis of racial classifications.

* June 7 – Homer Plessy ( who is black ) is arrested for sitting on the whites-only car in Louisiana, leading to the landmark Plessy v. Ferguson court case.

In 1997, in the landmark cyberlaw case of Reno v. ACLU, the United States Supreme Court struck the anti-indecency provisions of the Act.

In 1969, the court established stronger protections for speech in the landmark case Brandenburg v. Ohio which held that " the constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action ".

The city was the respondent in ( and eventual loser of ) the landmark property rights case, Dolan v. City of Tigard, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1994.

* The landmark 1973 United States Supreme Court abortion case Roe v. Wade gets half of its name from Jane Roe, an anonymous plaintiff later revealed to be named Norma McCorvey.

A First Amendment landmark case was National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie, in which neo-Nazis threatened to march in a predominantly Jewish suburb of Chicago.

The only landmark case in the Philippines on name and gender legal change is the Jeff case.

When the Supreme Court issued its decision in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas 347 US 483 ( 1954 ), Eastland, like most Southern Democrats, denounced it.

Brown v. Board of Education,, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.

For a variety of reasons ( including Mauchly's June 1941 examination of the Atanasoff – Berry Computer, prototyped in 1939 by John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry ), US patent 3, 120, 606 for ENIAC, granted in 1964, was voided by the 1973 decision of the landmark federal court case Honeywell v. Sperry Rand, putting the invention of the electronic digital computer in the public domain and providing legal recognition to Atanasoff as the inventor of the first electronic digital computer.

Colorado's Grand Canyon, probably the most famous landmark of the United States, can be the highpoint of your Western vacation.

The United States Congress has passed a number of landmark environmental regulatory regimes, but many other federal laws are equally important, if less comprehensive.

" Colonists ", sent to the island to establish possession claims by the United States, built the Earhart Light — named after Amelia Earhart — as a day beacon or navigational landmark.

* 1964 – Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Luther Terry, M. D., publishes the landmark report Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking national and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.

In 1823, he announced the United States ' opposition to any European intervention in the recently independent countries of the Americas with the Monroe Doctrine, which became a landmark in American foreign policy.

It took the combined effort and interest of conservationists, politicians and especially businesses — namely, the Northern Pacific Railroad, whose route through Montana would greatly benefit by the creation of this new tourist attraction — to ensure the passage of that landmark enabling legislation by the United States Congress to create Yellowstone National Park.

In the United States, following a series of landmark cases in the Supreme Court of the United States, persons diagnosed with paraphilias and a history of anti-social behavior, particularly pedophilia ( Kansas v. Hendricks, 1997 ) and exhibitionism ( Kansas v. Crane, 2002 ), can be held indefinitely in civil confinement under various state legislation generically known as Sexually violent predator laws and the federal Adam Walsh Act ( United States v. Comstock, 2010 ).

The Elizabeth Tower, in particular, which is often referred to by the name of its main bell, " Big Ben ", is an iconic landmark of London and the United Kingdom in general, one of the most popular tourist attractions in the city and an emblem of parliamentary democracy.

This complex occupies the site of the former Haus Vaterland, and its principal building, which for a few years was the headquarters of the large German trade union ver. di ( Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft, meaning United Services Union ), rises to 45 metres and has a curving glass facade designed to evoke the shape of that erstwhile landmark.

In 2011 the United Nations Human Rights Council passed a landmark resolution initiated by South Africa supporting LBGT rights ( See Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity at the United Nations )

In 1974, the United States Supreme Court issued the landmark decision, Kewanee Oil Co. v. Bicron Corp., 416 U. S. 470, 94 S. Ct.

In the landmark decision Nixon v. General Services Administration former Chief Justice of the United States William Rehnquist declared in his dissent the need to " fully describe the preeminent position that the President of the United States occupies with respect to our Republic.

Although the United States and Vietnam reached a landmark bilateral agreement in December 2001, which helped increase Vietnam ’ s exports to the United States, disagreements over textile and catfish exports are hindering full implementation of the agreement.