Associated Press v. Walker
Decision Date | 01 October 1967 |
Docket Number | No. 306,306 |
Citation | 88 S.Ct. 106,389 U.S. 28,19 L.Ed.2d 28 |
Parties | ASSOCIATED PRESS v. Edwin A. WALKER |
Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
William P. Rogers, Leo P. Larkin, Jr., Stanley Godofsky, Arthur Moynihan, Earl T. Thomas, John T. Guyton and Billy R. Pesnell, for petitioner.
W. Scott Wilkinson and Clyde J. Watts, for respondent.
On Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.
The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. The judgment is reversed and the case is remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts, 388 U.S. 130, 87 S.Ct. 1975, 18 L.Ed.2d 1094.
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