Legal Opinion

Bantam Books, Inc. v. Sullivan

Supreme Court of Rhode Island

Decided December 20, 1961No. Eq. No. 2925Published

1Opinion of the Court

176 A.2d 393 (1961)

BANTAM BOOKS, INC. et al.

v.

Joseph A. SULLIVAN et al. As Members of the Rhode Island Commission to Encourage Morality in Youth.

Eq. No. 2925.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

December 20, 1961.

Abedon, Michaelson and Stanzler, Milton Stanzler, Weil, Gotshall & Manges, Horace S. Manges, Jacob F. Raskin, New York, New York, for petitioners.

J. Joseph Nugent, Attorney General, Joseph L. Breen, Chief Special Counsel, for State, for respondents.

CONDON, C.J.

This is a petition to the superior court for a declaratory judgment under G.L. 1956, chap. 9-30, otherwise known as the uniform…

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2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Roth v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
  2. Chaplinsky v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
  3. Near v. Minnesota Ex Rel. OlsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
  4. Lovell v. City of GriffinSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
  5. Smith v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1960

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