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400 U.S. 929

Keriakos v. Hunt

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided November 23, 1970

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1970-11-23

Relies on Roth v. United States · Jacobellis v. Ohio · Book Named 'John Cleland's Memoirs of Woman of Pleasure' v. Attorney General of Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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Decided 1970-11-23

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Cited by 173 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2010 · most notably Wilder v. Virginia Hospital Assn. (1990), Memorial Hospital v. Maricopa County (1974)

87 federal appellate · 7 district · 46 state decisions — followed in 16 states

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¶1C. A. 1st Cir. Certiorari denied.

¶2The Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Harlan, and Mr. Justice Blackmun, for the reasons expressed in their separate opinions in Cain v. Kentucky, 397 U. S. 319 (1970), Walker v. Ohio, 398 U. S. 434 (1970) (The Chief Justice) ; Roth v. United States, 354 U. S. 476, 496 (1957), Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U. S. 184, 203 (1964), Memoirs v. Massachusetts, 383 U. S. 413, 455 (1966) (Mr. Justice Harlan); and Hoyt v. Minnesota, 399 U. S. 524 (1970) (Mr. Justice Blackmun), would grant certiorari and reverse the judgment below, and remand the case to the Court of Appeals for consideration of the other issues tendered by petitioners.

Mr. Justice Douglas took no part, in the consideration or decision of this petition.
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