Supreme Court of the United States, 1974

Boyd v. Ohio

Boyd v. Ohio
Supreme Court of the United States · Decided July 25, 1974
418 U.S. 954; 94 S. Ct. 3230 (United States Reports)

Boyd v. Ohio

Opinion of the Court

Ct. App. Ohio, Allen County. Certiorari denied. Mr. Justice Douglas, being of the view that any state ban on obscenity is pro*955hibited by the First Amendment, made applicable to the States by the Fourteenth (see Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton, 413 U. S. 49, 70 (1973) (Douglas, J., dissenting)), would grant certiorari and reyerse the judgment.

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