SUNSHINE BOOK CO. ET AL.
v.
SUMMERFIELD, POSTMASTER GENERAL

U.S. | 1958-01-13
No. 587
355 U.S. 372 Supreme Court of the United States (1958) Caution
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Per_curiam
Per Curiam.

Per Curiam.

The petition for writ of certiorari is granted and the judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is reversed. Roth v. United States, 354 U. S. 476.


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    …the consideration of the sordid business of pandering, as discussed in the Ginzburg case, supra. Nevertheless, we concur in what appears to be the generally prevailing view that nudity alone is not obscene. See Sunshine Book Company v. Summerfield, 355 U.S. 372, 78 S.Ct. 365, 2 L.Ed.2d 352 (1958). That does not mean, of course, that nudity may not become obscene by its manner of presentation and by “pandering.” We fully realize the great difficulty faced by a judge or some other person, who may be charged…
  • N.Y. Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (U.S. 1964)
    …acter which the principles of the First Amendment, as adopted by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, protect.” Penne-kamp v. Florida, 328 U. S. 331, 335; see also One, Inc., v. Olesen, 355 U. S. 371; Sunshine Book Co. v. Summerfield, 355 U. S. 372. We must “make an independent examination of the whole record,” Edwards v. South Carolina, 372 U. S. 229, 235, so as to assure ourselves that the judgment does not constitute a forbidden intrusion on the field of free expression.26 Applying these s…
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