Source: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/388/431/
Timestamp: 2019-04-24 16:42:38+00:00

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Id. at 354 U. S. 489. This film falls outside the range of expression protected by the First Amendment according to the criteria set out in Roth.
substantial rights, nor so inflexible as to prevent this Court from facing serious constitutional questions. Thus, we have held that service of a sentence does not render a case moot where the conviction, if allowed to stand, will result in collateral disabilities such as a loss of civil rights. Fiswick v. United States, 329 U. S. 211; United States v. Morgan, 346 U. S. 502.
In the present cases, we are in the area of the First Amendment. Over and over again we have stressed that First Amendment rights need "breathing space to survive" (NAACP v. Button, 371 U. S. 415, 371 U. S. 433), and we have been watchful lest coercive measures exercise an in terrorem effect which intimidates people from exercising their First Amendment rights. See, e.g., Speiser v. Randall, 357 U. S. 513; NAACP v. Button, supra; Keyishian v. Board of Regents, 385 U. S. 589. We have been mindful that "[t]he threat of sanctions may deter . . . almost as potently as the actual application of sanctions." NAACP v. Button, supra, at 471 U. S. 433. Accordingly, we have modified traditional rules of standing and prematurity to fit the peculiarities necessary to ensure adequate protection of First Amendment rights. See Dombrowski v. Pfister, 380 U. S. 479.

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