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GROVE PRESS, INC. v. CALISSI

Civ. A. No. 900-61.

208 F.Supp. 580 (1962)

GROVE PRESS, INC., a Corporation, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Guy W. CALISSI et al., Defendants.

United States District Court D. New Jersey.

August 1, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerome C. Eisenberg, Newark, N. J., for plaintiffs.

George B. Gelman, Hackensack, N. J., for Guy W. Calissi, Robert A. Doremus, Gordon Graber, John J. McEvoy and Philip Wagenti.

James M. Muth, Ramsey, N. J. and Henry G. Morgan, Newark, N. J., for Robert A. Doremus.

Stickel & Stickel, Newark, N. J., for Frank J. Stoeckle.

Vincent P. Torppey, Newark, N. J., for August J. Rauscher.

Freeman & Kroner, Westwood, N. J., for John C. Lindeman.

Schneider, Lustbader & Morgan, Newark, N. J., for Robert A. Doremus.

Before McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge, MADDEN, Chief Judge, and WORTENDYKE, District Judge.

McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit to enjoin certain New Jersey law enforcement authorities from proceeding under the law of that State against a book titled "Tropic of Cancer". The principal plaintiff is the book's publisher who advertises its book on the cover page of same as "* * * an unbridled obscenity which it is". We do not reach the question of whether that deliberate statement is true because, as will appear, in its present status the controversy is...

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