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Mishkin v. New York
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued 7 December, 1965 Decided 21 March, 1966
Full case name	Edward Mishkin v. People of the State of New York
Citations	383 U.S. 502 (more)
Holding
The prurient appeal requirement of the Roth standard is met when the dominant theme of the work appeals to the sexual interests of a "clearly defined deviant sexual group".
Court membership
Chief Justice Earl Warren Associate Justices Hugo Black · William O. Douglas Tom C. Clark · John M. Harlan II William J. Brennan Jr. · Potter Stewart Byron White · Abe Fortas
Case opinions
Majority	Brennan, joined by Warren, Clark, White, Fortas
Dissent	Douglas
Dissent	Harlan
Dissent	Black
Dissent	Stewart
Laws applied
First Amendment, New York State Penal Law section 1141
Superseded by
Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15 (1973)

Mishkin v. New York, 383 U.S. 502 (1966), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court involving the application of the First Amendment to state-level obscenity laws. One of a trio of cases (with Memoirs v. Massachusetts 383 U.S. 413 (1966) and Ginzburg v. United States 383 U.S. 463 (1966)) released on the same day, Mishkin was part of the Supreme Court's attempt to refine the definitions of obscenity after the landmark 1957 case Roth v. United States 354 U.S. 476.