11th Circuit Obscenity Case Tests Community Standards on the Internet
The 11th Circuit on Thursday heard arguments in a case that involves some of the heaviest issues in the area of obscenity law, such as whether the government should criminalize adult films purchased over the Internet and viewed in the privacy of the home, and whether a Florida jury should apply its own mores to materials available all over the country. But the judges on the panel seemed interested less in hot-button issues than in sentencing matters and a personal problem experienced by a juror during the trial.
