Associated Press v. Walker

Supreme Court of the United States

October Term, 1967.

October 16, 1967

Rehearing Denied Dec. 4, 1967.

Supreme Court of the United States · decided Rehearing Denied Dec. 4, 1967.

Relies on Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts · Fort v. City of Miami · United States v. Mercantile Trust Co. Nat. Assn.

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Reversed and remanded · 9–0 · Opinion by Per Curiam · Decided Rehearing Denied Dec. 4, 1967.

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Cited by 17 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1988

6 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions

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See 389 U.S. 997, 88 S.Ct. 462.

William P. Rogers, Leo P. Larkin, Jr., Stanley Godofsky, Arthur Moynihan, Earl T. Thomas, John T. Guyton and Billy R. Pesnell, for petitioner.

W. Scott Wilkinson and Clyde J. Watts, for respondent.

On Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

PER CURIAM.

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The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. The judgment is reversed and the case is remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts, 388 U.S. 130, 87 S.Ct. 1975, 18 L.Ed.2d 1094.

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Mr. Justice BLACK, with whom Mr. Justice DOUGLAS joins, concurs in the result for the reasons stated in Mr. Justice Black's separate opinion in Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts, 388 U.S. 130, 170, 87 S.Ct. 1975, 18 L.Ed.2d 1094.