Supreme Court of the United States, 1967

Chance v. California

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided November 6, 1967 · Harlan

389 U.S. 89; 88 S. Ct. 253; 19 L. Ed. 2d 256; 1967 U.S. LEXIS 347 (United States Reports)

Counsel

Marshall W. Krause for petitioner., Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General of California, and Robert R. Granucci and Michael J. Phelan, Deputy Attorneys General, for respondent.

Cases that cite this one

19 later published cases cite this decision.

Vernon Walker Huffman v. United States, Dennis Eugene Pryba v. United States (D.C. Cir. 1972)
People v. Bloss (Mich. 1972)
Grand Rapids City Attorney v. Bloss (Mich. Ct. App. 1970)
People v. Billingsley (Mich. Ct. App. 1969)
United States v. William Groner, D/B/A Lucky Distributors (5th Cir. 1972)
State v. Hoyt (Minn. 1970)
Commonwealth v. LaLONDE (Pa. 1972)
State v. Cox (Wash. Ct. App. 1970)
State v. Carlson (Minn. 1972)
In re Seven Magazines (R.I. 1970)
Hayse v. Van Hoomissen (District Court, D. Oregon 1970)
In re Seven Magazines (R.I. 1970)
United States v. Robert Baranov, United States of America v. Harvey B. Levitt, United States of America v. H. B. Levitt & Associates, Inc. (9th Cir. 1969)
Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton (Supreme Court of the United States 1973)
State v. Hoelscher (Minn. 1972)
United States v. New Orleans Book Mart, Inc. (United States District Court Eastern District of Louisiana 1971)
Interstate Circuit, Inc. v. City of Dallas (Supreme Court of the United States 1968)
State Ex Rel. Sensenbrenner v. Adult Book Store (Ohio Ct. App. 1971)
People v. Kirkpatrick (Criminal Court of the City of New York 1970)

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Opinion

Per Curiam.

The motion to proceed in forma pauperis and the petition for a writ of certiorari are granted. The judgment is reversed. Redrup v. New York, 386 U. S. 767.

Mr. Justice Harlan

would affirm for the reasons set forth in his separate opinion in Roth v. United States, 354 U. S. 476, 496, 500-503, and in his dissenting opinion in Memoirs v. Massachusetts, 383 U. S. 413, 455.

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