<P> Roth v. United States , 354 U.S. 476 ( 1957 ) , along with its companion case Alberts v. Christopher Sommer , was a landmark case before the United States Supreme Court which redefined the Constitutional test for determining what constitutes obscene material unprotected by the First Amendment . </P>
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