UNITED STATES v. 56 CARTONS CONTAINING 19,500 COPIES OF MAG.

No. 10798.

373 F.2d 635 (1967)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Potomac News Co., Claimant, of 56 CARTONS CONTAINING 19,500 COPIES OF a MAGAZINE ENTITLED "HELLENIC SUN," Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 16, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley M. Dietz, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Fred Kelly Grant, Asst. U. S. Atty. (Thomas J. Kenney, U. S. Atty., and Arthur G. Murphy, First Asst. U. S. Atty., on brief), for appellee.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and SOBELOFF and CRAVEN, Circuit Judges.


HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge:

An importer of an undated magazine devoted to pictures of male nudes has appealed from a judgment ordering the destruction of the magazines as obscene. He contests the constitutionality of the statute authorizing their seizure, the procedures in the Bureau of Customs and those in the District Court and the finding that the magazines were without socially redeeming value. We find no merit in any of...

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