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holding not obscene a movie which informs people that "sexual filth" exists in the world
Summary of this case from Duggan v. Guild Theatre, Inc.Opinion
APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF TENNESSEE.
No. 679.
Decided January 15, 1968.
___ Tenn. ___, 414 S.W.2d 638, reversed.
Longstreet Heiskell for appellant.
George F. McCanless, Attorney General of Tennessee, and Thomas E. Fox, Deputy Attorney General, for appellee.
The judgment of the Supreme Court of Tennessee is reversed. Redrup v. New York, 386 U.S. 767.
THE CHIEF JUSTICE would affirm.
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.