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PENNEKAMP v. FLORIDA

No. 473.

328 U.S. 331 (1946)

PENNEKAMP ET AL. v. FLORIDA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 3, 1946.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert R. Milam and Elisha Hanson argued the cause for petitioners. With them on the brief were E.T. McIlvaine and Edward E. Fleming.

J. Tom Watson, Attorney General of Florida, James M. Carson and Giles J. Patterson argued the cause for respondent. With Messrs. Watson and Carson on the brief was Sumter Leitner, Assistant Attorney General.

William Harrison Mizell and Osmond K. Fraenkel filed a brief for the American Civil Liberties Union, as amicus curiae, urging reversal.

MR. JUSTICE REED delivered the opinion of the Court.

This proceeding brings here for review a judgment of the Supreme Court of Florida, 156 Fla. 227, 22 So.2d 875, which affirmed a judgment of guilt in contempt of the Circuit Court of Dade County, Florida, on a citation of petitioners by that Circuit Court.

The individual petitioner was the associate editor of the Miami Herald, a newspaper of general circulation, published in Dade County, Florida, and within...

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