Corinth Publications, Inc v. Wesberry
| Decision Date | 12 June 1967 |
| Docket Number | No. 227,227 |
| Parties | CORINTH PUBLICATIONS, INC. v. James P. WESBERRY et al |
| Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
Stanley Fleishman, for petitioner.
Arthur K. Bolton, Atty. Gen. of Georgia, and G. Ernest Tidwell, Executive Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondents.
On Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Court of Georgia.
The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted and the judgment of the Supreme Court of Georgia is reversed.
THE CHIEF JUSTICE would grant the petition and set the case for oral argument.
Mr. Justice CLARK would grant the petition and affirm.
Mr. Justice HARLAN adheres to the views expressed in his separate opinions in Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476, 496, 77 S.Ct. 1304, 1 L.Ed.2d 1498, and A Book Named 'John Cleland's' Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure v. Attorney General of Com. of Massachusetts, 383 U.S. 413, 455, 86 S.Ct. 975, 16 L.Ed.2d 1, and on the basis of the reasoning set forth therein would affirm.
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