Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Potomac News Co. v. United States

Potomac News Co. v. United States, 389 U.S. 47 (1967)

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1967-10-23
Topic
litigation

How later courts describe this case

  • purveyor intended to distribute the magazine among male homosexuals at a mark-up from twenty-four cents to five dollars a copy.

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POTOMAC NEWS CO.v. UNITED STATES,389 U.S. 47(1967)
POTOMAC NEWS CO.v. UNITED STATES.
ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF
APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT.
No. 164.
Decided October 23, 1967.
Certiorari granted;373 F.2d 635, reversed.
Stanley M. Dietzfor petitioner.Solicitor General Marshall, Assistant Attorney GeneralVinsonandJerome M. Feitfor 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.Redrupv.New York,386 U.S. 767.

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

THE CHIEF JUSTICE dissents.

MR. JUSTICE MARSHALL took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.Page 48