This book provides a collection of major cases and selected reprints of important articles from leading law journals, about obscenity, censorship, rights of privacy, and other First Amendment problems. The 50 Supreme Court decisions and 17 interpretive articles examine the legal activism of the Warren and Burger courts, from the 1960s through the middle 1970s. Decisions during this period increased the importance of media law to those interested in mass communication, political science, sociology, and other such disciplines. Chapters discuss First Amendment provisions and the Supreme Court justices, prior restraint, postal censorship, obscenity, motion-picture censorship, libel, right of privacy, trial by newspaper and television, public access to the media, and the legacy of the Warren court. (KS)