Legal Opinion
United States v. West Coast News Co.
District Court, W.D. Michigan
Decided February 13, 1962No. Crim. A. No. 6615PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STARR, Senior District Judge.
The defendants were indicted by a grand jury in this district, counts 1 through 6 of the indictment charging that they did knowingly cause the mails to be used for the mailing and carriage in the mails, and did knowingly cause to be delivered by mail, from Fresno, California, to certain places of business in this district certain obscene, lewd, and indecent books in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1461 and 18 U.S.C. § 2(a); and charging in counts 7 through 19 that the defendants did knowingly cause a common carrier to be used for the carriage in interstate commerce from…
2Cases cited47 opinions
- Roth v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- United States v. HarrissSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Smith v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
- Winters v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
- Virginian Railway Co. v. System Federation No. 40Supreme Court of the United States · 1937
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Samuel Gold, Howard Guy Halbett, John Frank Fusco v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1967
- United States v. West Coast News Company, Inc., a California Corporation, Wallace De-Ortega Maxey, and Sanford E. AdayCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1966
- United States v. LurosDistrict Court, N.D. Iowa · 1965
- United States v. John S. LangfordCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1982
- Reed Enterprises v. ClarkDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 1968
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