THOMAS J. MESKILL
(Thomas Joseph Meskill Jr.)
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Refusing to overturn a lower court's ruling that pornographic magazines were lot legally obscene in the light of the Supreme Court definition depending on community standards.
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Thomas Joseph Meskill Jr. was a longtime United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He previously served as the 82nd Governor of Connecticut, as a United States Representative from Connecticut, and as the mayor of New Britain, Connecticut. He is noted as having served in all three branches of government and at the local, state and federal levels of government during his career of public service.