Landau v. Fording

Decision Date12 June 1967
Docket NumberNo. 1164,1164
PartiesSaul LANDAU v. Addison FORDING et al
CourtU.S. Supreme Court

Marshall W. Krause, for petitioner.

Robert T. Anderson and Robert P. Berkman, for respondents.

On Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District.

PER CURIAM.

The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted and the judgment of the Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, is affirmed.

Mr. Justice BLACK, Mr. Justice DOUGLAS, Mr. Justice STEWART, and Mr. Justice FORTAS would grant the petition and reverse.

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  • People v. Adler
    • United States
    • California Superior Court
    • March 21, 1972
    ...day that Schackman was reversed, the court affirmed Landau v. Fording (1966), 245 Cal.App.2d 820, 54 Cal.Rptr. 177. ((1967), 388 U.S. 456, 87 S.Ct. 2109, 8 L.Ed.2d 1317.) Landau involved a motion picture of men masturbating. Of course, it is inconceivable that the cases turned on some sort ......
  • Glancy v. Sacramento County
    • United States
    • California Court of Appeals Court of Appeals
    • May 13, 1971
    ...of nude entertainment. (See, Landau v. Fording (1966) 245 Cal.App.2d 820, 827, 54 Cal.Rptr. 177, aff'd per curiam (1967), 388 U.S. 456, 87 S.Ct. 2109, 18 L.Ed.2d 1317; United States v. A Motion Picture Film (2d Cir. 1968) 404 F.2d 196, 198; P.B.I.C., Inc. v. Byrne (D.Mass.1970) 313 F.Supp. ......
  • Interstate Circuit, Inc v. City of Dallas United Artists Corporation v. City of Dallas, s. 56
    • United States
    • U.S. Supreme Court
    • April 22, 1968
    ...U.S. 453, 87 S.Ct. 2105, 18 L.Ed.2d 1315; Schackman v. California, 388 U.S. 454, 87 S.Ct. 2107, 18 L.Ed.2d 1316; Landau v. Fording, 388 U.S. 456, 87 S.Ct. 2109, 18 L.Ed.2d 1317; Potomac News Co. v. United States, 389 U.S. 47, 88 S.Ct. 233, 19 L.Ed.2d 46; Conner v. City of Hammond, 389 U.S. ......
  • Stroud v. State
    • United States
    • Indiana Supreme Court
    • October 15, 1971
    ...1 The one affirmance came in the case of Landau v. Fording (1966) 245 Cal.App.2d 820, 54 Cal.Rptr. 177, aff'm in 388 U.S. 456, 87 S.Ct. 2109, 18 L.Ed.2d 1317 (1967), in which the lower court found a film by Jean Genet obscene. The Court found that the film contained explicit and vivid scene......
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