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BAC, Kew York Director, FBI INDIANA UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE FOR SEX RESEARCH, INC., (KINSEY INSTITUTE); An item appeared in the "Washington Star" on 1/3/58, indicating that a decision by Federal Judge Edsund Palmieri of New York altered the obscenity rule. vy gel Art The news item relates that the Government bas broadened its legal standard for judging obscenity of imported books, photos, and other materials. The ruling laid down by the Judge is the rule that an object is not legally obscene if the person importing it had a genuine scientific purpose. The article also indicated that the Solicitor General said the Government would not appeal from this ruling and, in effect, is tantamount to breadening of the Government 's original conception of ebscenity which had net considered the status and purposes ef recipients of pornography. et One The case before Judge Palmieri involved aduittedly pornographic books, pictures, and other objects imported from China by the above institute and held in New York by the U. 8. Customs. The New York Office is requested to ebtain, if possible, a cepy of the opinion rendered by Judge Palmieri, Southern District of Kew York, and furnish copy to the Bureau and Indianapolis for information rposes. alt ne copy is readily available, New York go advise. os "secoRDED 87 URIGINAL W1tnte in EX. - 126 Boardavan ———— Belmont - Mohr ————— Parsons ————— Rosen ——__—_—_ Tomm ———— Trotter ——__——