My Project

For my project, I’d like to use what we learned in the XML and CSS course to build a site with a table for organizing court cases related to censorship and obscenity trials. I figure information can be organized and sorted by plaintiff, defendant, date or year, whether the decision was a state or federal one (or foreign one, in one case), and whether the case was overturned by a later case. I would like to include links to brief summaries of the case histories (this is a history project after all). To give an idea of how many cases I’m thinking of using, the following have been among the most notable in previous research. They are presented in chronological order. Thoughts?

Regina v. Hicklin (1868) (English case)

Dunlop v. US (1897)

Mutual Film Corporation v. Industrial Commission of Ohio (1915)

Winters v. New York (1948)

United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. (1948)

Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson (1952)

Gelling v. Texas (1952)

Alberts v. California (1957)

Roth v. US (1957)

Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964)

Freedman v. Maryland (1965)

Ginzburg v. US (1966)

Ginsber v. State of NY (1968)

Miller v. California (1973)

FCC v. Pacifica Foundation (1978)