Supreme Court of the United States, 1967

Potomac News Co. v. United States

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided October 23, 1967 · Harlan, Marshall

389 U.S. 47; 88 S. Ct. 233; 19 L. Ed. 2d 46; 1967 U.S. LEXIS 441 (United States Reports)

Counsel

Stanley M. Dietz for petitioner., Solicitor General Marshall, Assistant Attorney General Vinson and Jerome M. Feit for the United States.

Cases that cite this one

45 later published cases cite this decision. The 25 that cite it most often are listed here.

Vernon Walker Huffman v. United States, Dennis Eugene Pryba v. United States (D.C. Cir. 1972)
Grand Rapids City Attorney v. Bloss (Mich. Ct. App. 1970)
United States v. William Groner, D/B/A Lucky Distributors (5th Cir. 1972)
People v. Bloss (Mich. 1972)
State v. Cox (Wash. Ct. App. 1970)
People v. Billingsley (Mich. Ct. App. 1969)
State v. Hoyt (Minn. 1970)
G. P. Putnam's Sons v. Calissi (N.J. 1967)
United States v. Robert J. Baranov (9th Cir. 1973)
Commonwealth v. LaLONDE (Pa. 1972)
People v. Hanserd (Ill. App. Ct. 1985)
United States v. Herman L. Womack, United States of America v. Potomac News Company (D.C. Cir. 1975)
Simpson v. Spice (District Court, E.D. Wisconsin 1975)
United States v. Norman Arno, Dba Beneficial Sales, Dba Security Sales Co., Dba C & a Sales, Dba N & A, Dba Social (9th Cir. 1972)
United States v. Thomas C. Pellegrino (9th Cir. 1972)
State v. Carlson (Minn. 1972)
Lloyd Spinar and Conrad L. Germain, Doing Business as Dsi Sales v. United States (8th Cir. 1971)
United States v. New Orleans Book Mart, Inc. (United States District Court Eastern District of Louisiana 1971)
United States v. Pinkus (United States District Court for the Central District of California 1971)
Childs v. State of Oregon (9th Cir. 1970)
City News Center, Inc. v. Carson (United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida 1970)
In re Seven Magazines (R.I. 1970)
United States v. Ten Erotic Paintings (District Court, D. Maryland 1970)
In re Seven Magazines (R.I. 1970)
Childs v. Oregon (9th Cir. 1970)

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Opinion

389 U.S. 47 (1967)

POTOMAC NEWS CO.
v.
UNITED STATES.

No. 164.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided October 23, 1967.ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT.

Stanley M. Dietz for petitioner.

Solicitor General Marshall, Assistant Attorney General Vinson and Jerome M. Feit for 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. Redrup v. New York, 386 U. S. 767.

MR. JUSTICE HARLAN concurs in the judgment of reversal upon the premises stated in his separate opinion in Roth v. United States, 354 U. S. 476, 496, and in his dissenting opinion in Memoirs v. 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.

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