General
Butler v. Michigan
350 U.S. 963·Supreme Court of the United States·1956
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Opinion
No. 548.
Butler v. Michigan.
Manuel Lee Bobbins and William G. Comb for appellant. Thomas M. Kavanagh, Attorney General of Michigan, Edmund E. Shepherd, Solicitor General, and Daniel J. O’Hara, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee. Briefs of amici curiae urging that probable jurisdiction be noted were filed by Horace S. Manges for the American Book Publishers Council, Inc., and Osmond K. Fraenkel for the Authors League of America, Inc.
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Appeal from the Recorder's Court of the City of Detroit, Michigan. Probable jurisdiction noted.