Court Opinion

ID: 9430105
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:28:57.949706+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:23.015318
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Justice Brennan,
with whom Justice Marshall joins,
dissenting.
We granted certiorari to consider the holding of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that the Washington state obscenity law, Wash. Rev. Code §§7.48A.010-7.48A.900 (1983), is substantially overbroad and therefore invalid on its face under the First Amendment because it defines “prurient” in such a way as to reach constitutionally protected material that stimulates no more than a healthy interest in sex. This statute is, in my view, unconstitutionally overbroad and therefore invalid on its face for the reasons given in my dissent in Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton, 413 U. S. 49, 73 (1973). I would therefore affirm the judgment of the Court of Appeals.