Legal Opinion
Grove Press, Inc. v. Calissi
District Court, D. New Jersey
Decided August 1, 1962No. Civ. A. No. 900-61PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge.
This is a suit to enjoin certain New Jersey law enforcement authorities from proceeding under the law of that State against a book titled “Tropic of Cancer". The principal plaintiff is the book’s publisher who advertises its book on the cover page of same as “ * * * an unbridled obscenity which it is”. We do not reach the question of whether that deliberate statement is true because, as will appear, in its present status the controversy is clearly an issue for the State of New Jersey to resolve.
The basic facts are simple. Since at least 1868, New Jersey has had laws…
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