United States v. Stevens
559 U.S. 460 · U.S. Supreme Court
Holding and boundaries
Invalidated an overbroad federal statute criminalizing certain depictions of animal cruelty.
Scope and limitations: Does not bar laws targeting underlying animal cruelty, obscenity, child exploitation or properly tailored unprotected speech.
1 issue placement
Arts, Culture & Public Humanities
United States v. Stevens rejects, narrows, limits, or supplies adverse authority relevant to Arts, Culture & Public Humanities. Fit tier: Contextual. The placement must be used only within the holding and limitations recorded here.
Scope and limitations: Does not bar laws targeting underlying animal cruelty, obscenity, child exploitation or properly tailored unprotected speech.
Verification-state description: authoritative_text_identified; pinpoint_and_currentness_review_required
Publication and provenance
The authority is published once; issue-specific orientation and fit remain separate placements. Analogue, contextual, and historical-adverse fits are not represented as controlling.
Published under research-publication-clearance-2026-07-21. deterministic validation and objective verification are not claimed.