ABSTRACT
In Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184 (1964), the US Supreme Court handed down a decision involving whether the state of Ohio could ban the showing of the French film Les Amants, which the state had deemed obscene. The most famous opinion from Jacobellis v. Ohio was Justice Potter Stewart’s claim that although he could not define it, ‘you know pornography when you see it’. 1
