Legal Opinion
Karalexis v. Byrne
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided December 15, 1969No. Civ. A. 69-665-JPublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALDRICH, Circuit Judge.
This is a three-judge district court action in which a frontal attack is made upon a state obscenity statute, based upon the Court’s recent decision in Stanley v. Georgia, 1969, 394 U.S. 557, 89 S.Ct. 1243, 22 L.Ed.2d 542. In that case the Court reversed a state conviction for possession of a eoncededly obscene moving picture film, found in the home of the defendant. We are asked to rule that this decision extends to a case where the possessors permitted a number of consenting adults or, more exactly, paying adult members of the public, to view their possibly obscene…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- New York Times Co. v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Griswold v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Roth v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Thornhill v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
- Dombrowski v. PfisterSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
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3Cited by43 opinions
- Marvin Miller, Covina Publishing, Inc., a Corporation Doing Business as Collector's Publications v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1970
- United States v. Thirty-Seven (37) PhotographsDistrict Court, C.D. California · 1970
- People v. LurosCalifornia Supreme Court · 1971
- P. B. I. C., Inc. v. ByrneDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1970
- Hanby v. StateAlaska Supreme Court · 1970
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