- Rembar, Charles
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▪ 2001American lawyer (b. March 12, 1915, Oceanport, N.J.—d. Oct. 24, 2000, Bronx, N.Y.), successfully defended the publishers of such celebrated books as Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928), Tropic of Cancer (France, 1934; U.S., 1961) and Fanny Hill (1748–49) in some of the foremost censorship battles waged in the U.S. After winning the Fanny Hill case before the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that the book was protected under the First Amendment, Rembar was hailed as a pathfinder; no other book was ever again judged to be obscene in U.S. courts. Rembar's anticensorship campaign began when Norman Mailer, his cousin, asked him to defend the earthy language in one of his works. Rembar recounted his constitutional encounters in The End of Obscenity (1968), for which he won the George Polk Memorial Award in journalism in 1969.
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