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Just to set the record straight...the term "I know it when I see it..." had nothing to do with Larry Flynt. In Jacobellis v. Ohio. Ohio 378 US 184 (1964) Justice Potter Stewart wrote in a concurring opinion; "I shall not today attemp further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["hardcore pornography"]; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that."
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