MAGTAB PUBLISHING CORPORATION v. HOWARD

Civ. A. Nos. 7222-7227.

169 F.Supp. 65 (1959)

MAGTAB PUBLISHING CORPORATION et al. v. W. L. HOWARD and James C. Kelly, Jr. HMH PUBLISHING COMPANY, Inc. v. W. L. HOWARD and James C. Kelly, Jr. PICTURES MAGAZINES, INC., et al. v. W. L. HOWARD and James C. Kelly, Jr. BANNER MAGAZINES, INC. v. W. L. HOWARD and James C. Kelly, Jr. DELL PUBLISHING COMPANY, Inc. v. W. L. HOWARD and James C. Kelly, Jr. GREENLEAF PUBLISHING COMPANY v. W. L. HOWARD and James C. Kelly, Jr.

United States District Court W. D. Louisiana, Monroe Division.

January 9, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas W. Davenport, Monroe, La., for plaintiffs.

Haynes L. Harkey, Jr., Hayes, Harkey & Smith, Monroe, La., for defendants.


BEN C. DAWKINS, Jr., Chief Judge.

This is another of the many controversies arising from the well-intentioned efforts of local governmental authorities to cleanse the newsstands of morally objectionable magazines so as to protect young people from exposure to obscene, indecent, immoral, filthy, lewd, sexually indecent, or lascivious influences. As is almost always the case, the actions of those so worthily motivated have evoked charges here, from the publishers of...

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