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Smith v. California is a 1959 U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the freedom of the press. The decision deemed unconstitutional a city ordinance that made one in possession of obscene books criminally liable because it did not require proof that one had knowledge of the book’s content and thus violated the freedom of the press guaranteed in the First Amendment. Smith v.