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CAIN v. KENTUCKY

No. 347.

397 U.S. 319 (1970)

CAIN ET AL. v. KENTUCKY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 23, 1970

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund C. Grainger, Jr., and James E. Thornberry for appellants.

John B. Breckinridge, Attorney General of Kentucky, and John B. Browning, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

The judgment is reversed. Redrup v. New York, 386 U.S. 767.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BURGER, dissenting.

In my view we should not inflexibly deny to each of the States the power to adopt and enforce its own standards as to obscenity and pornographic materials; States ought to be free to deal with varying conditions and problems in this area. I am unwilling to say that Kentucky is without power to bar...

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