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| (KINSEY INSTITUTE) } BAC, New York | 1/8/88 Director, FBI . INDIANA UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE . we he / FOR SEX RESEARCH, INC., An item appeared in the "Washington Star" on 1/3/58, indicating that a decision by Federal Judge Edsund Palmieri of New York altered the obscenity rule. oo. The news item relates that the Government bas broadened its legal standard for judging obscenity of imported books, photos, and other materials. The ruling laid down by the Judge is the rule that an object is not legally obscene 42 the person importing it had a genuine scientific purpose. The article also indicated that the Solicitor General said the Government would not appeal from this ruling and, in effect, is tantamount to breadening of the Governnent's original conception of ebscenity which had not considered the status and purposes ef recipients of pornography. The case before Judge Palmieri involved aduittedly pornographic books, pictures, and other objects imported from China by the above institate and held in New York by the U. 8. Customs. “2 ot aah CP ws Boardman ———_—. Belmont - Mohr ————-—__— Parsons ———-=———— Rosen —————— Tomn ——-——— + Jretter —————_—— The New York Office is requested to ebtain, if possible, a cepy of the opinion rendered by Judge Palmieri, Southern District of New York, and furnish copy to the Bureau and Indianapolis for information If no copy is readily available, New York dd oy ' SECORDED - 31 . ~ Indianapolis SFEORDED - 37 we _ _ aoa? EX.-126 ee ; (3) 44 - oe 1et-402 76/- ‘4 a? 7 - i i _ . eee aie mye =, ” UBIGINAL itinta ia’