 Osborne v. Ohio

Osborne v. Ohio, 495 U.S. 103 (1990), is a U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the First Amendment allows states to outlaw the mere possession, as distinct from the distribution, of child pornography.In so doing, the Court extended the holding of "New York v. Ferber", which had upheld laws banning the distribution of child pornography against a similar First Amendment challenge, and distinguished "Stanley v. Georgia", which had struck down a Georgia law forbidding the possession of pornography by adults in their own homes.