Grassi v. United States

How later courts describe this case

• violation of section 8(e) “hot cargo” prohibition automatically strips unions and employers of any antitrust exemption
• calculated scheme of warrantless arrests and harrassing visits by prosecutor forced involuntary self-censorship by distributor
• where authorities embarked on program of arresting everyone who distributed certain publications and made this action public, causing retailers in county to cease selling publications, the conduct amounted to an informal system of prior restraint
• "The term nonstatutory exemption ... is a shorthand description of an interpretation of the Sherman Act, making that statute inapplicable to restraints imposed in the interest of lawful union monopoly power in the labor market.”
• program of harassment by county officials against retail booksellers.. selling sexually oriented publications operated as an informal system of prior restraint and refuted contention that retailers and distributors voluntarily removed such publications from their shelves
• applying Hunt’s holding to seizure of allegedly obscene materials
• failure to discuss validity of search