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Central Magazine Sales, Ltd. v. United States

U.S.
Oct 23, 1967
389 U.S. 50 (1967)
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reversing per curiam

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ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT.

No. 368.

Decided October 23, 1967.

Certiorari granted; 373 F.2d 633, reversed.

Richard Lipsitz for petitioner.

Solicitor General Marshall, Assistant Attorney General Vinson and Jerome M. Feit for the United States.

PER CURIAM.

The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted and the judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit is reversed. Redrup v. New York, 386 U.S. 767.

MR. JUSTICE HARLAN concurs in the judgment of reversal upon the premises stated in his separate opinion in Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476, 496, and in his dissenting opinion in Memoirs v. Massachusetts, 383 U.S. 413, 455, 457.

THE CHIEF JUSTICE believes this case is controlled by Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476, and the judgment should be affirmed in accordance with the principles enunciated in the opinion of the Court in that case.

MR. JUSTICE MARSHALL took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.

Summaries of

Central Magazine Sales, Ltd. v. United States

U.S.
Oct 23, 1967
389 U.S. 50 (1967)

reversing per curiam

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In Central Magazine Sales, Ltd. v. United States, 389 U.S. 50, 88 S.Ct. 235, 19 L.Ed.2d 49 the Supreme Court reversed the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals' affirmance of a forfeiture and destruction decree entered into by a district court judge.

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In Central Magazine Sales, Ltd. v. United States, 389 U.S. 50 (1967), the Supreme Court reversed, without opinion, citing only Redrup, a finding of the trial court (253 F. Supp. 485) that the magazine "Exclusive," containing photographs much like the ones in the case at bar, was obscene (i.e., hard core), a finding which had been affirmed on appeal (373 F.2d 633).

Summary of this case from Village Books v. State's Attorney

In Central Magazine Sales, Ltd. v. United States, supra, 7 justices, 6 on the authority of Redrup, by a per curiam opinion reversed the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in United States v. 392 Copies of Magazine Entitled "Exclusive," supra.

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Central Magazine Sales, Ltd. v. United States

Case Details

Full title:CENTRAL MAGAZINE SALES, LTD. v . UNITED STATES

Court:U.S.

Date published: Oct 23, 1967

Citations

389 U.S. 50 (1967)

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