When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof that the pig is obscene. -John Paul Stevens

 

When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof that the pig is obscene.


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Although it may not be a castle, [it is the] functional equivalent of a hotel room, a vacation and retirement home or a hunting and fishing cabin.

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Always allowed local policy-makers wide latitude in determining how best to achieve legitimate public goals.

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They may not be conscripted against their will as the foot soldiers in a federal crusade.

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The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

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It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written.

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