FLACK v. MUNICIPAL COURT

Docket No. L.A. 28782.

66 Cal.2d 981 (1967)

429 P.2d 192

59 Cal. Rptr. 872

JACK FLACK et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. THE MUNICIPAL COURT FOR THE ANAHEIM-FULLERTON JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF ORANGE COUNTY, Defendant and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

July 3, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley Fleishman and Martha Goldin for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Joseph B. Geisler, City Attorney, Lloyd J. Goldwater, John J. Gallagher and John F.F. Bovee, Deputy City Attorneys, for Defendant and Respondent.


MOSK, J.

In this action for writ of mandate we are called upon to determine whether law enforcement officers have used sufficiently "sensitive tools"1 in attempting to curb alleged obscenity.

Plaintiffs (hereinafter called petitioners) appeal from an adverse judgment on their complaint for writ of mandate to compel respondent to return an allegedly obscene film seized at the time of their arrest. We are not called upon in this...

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