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POTOMAC NEWS CO. v. UNITED STATES, 389 U.S. 47 (1967)

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United States Supreme Court

POTOMAC NEWS CO. v. UNITED STATES(1967)

No. 164

Argued: Decided: October 23, 1967

Certiorari granted; 373 F.2d 635, reversed.

Stanley M. Dietz for petitioner.

Solicitor General Marshall, Assistant Attorney General Vinson and Jerome M. Feit for the United States.

PER CURIAM.

The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted and the judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit is reversed. Redrup v. New York, 386 U.S. 767 .

MR. JUSTICE HARLAN concurs in the judgment of reversal upon the premises stated in his separate opinion in Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476, 496 , and in his dissenting opinion in Memoirs v. Massachusetts, 383 U.S. 413, 455 , 457.

THE CHIEF JUSTICE dissents.

MR. JUSTICE MARSHALL took no part in the consideration or decision of this case. [389 U.S. 47, 48]  

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