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UNITED STATES v. ONE BOOK ENTITLED "THE ADV. OF FATHER SILAS"

249 F.Supp. 911 (1966)

UNITED STATES of America, Libellant, v. ONE BOOK ENTITLED "THE ADVENTURES OF FATHER SILAS" and One Book Entitled "Two Novels." UNITED STATES of America, Libellant, v. TEN OBSCENE BOOKS ENTITLED "JUSTINE" by D. A. F. DeSade et al.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

January 18, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James G. Greilsheimer, Asst. U. S. Atty. for Southern District of New York, New York City (Robert M. Morgenthau, U. S. Atty. for Southern District of New York, Judith Nochimson, Asst. U. S. Atty.), for libellant.

Osmond K. Fraenkel, New York City, for claimant.

FRANKEL, District Judge.

In two consolidated proceedings under Section 305 of The Tariff Act of 1930, 19 U.S.C. § 1305,1 the Government seeks "the forfeiture, confiscation, and destruction of" twelve allegedly obscene paper-backed books mailed from French publishers to the claimant, Mel Friedman, in California.2 The quarrel began when the Collector of Customs at the Port of New York "seized and held" the...

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