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A Book Named "John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" v. Attorney General of Massachusetts, 1966 — 382 U.S. 968 · caselaw · US
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A Book Named "John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" v. Attorney General of Massachusetts
382 U.S. 968·Supreme Court of the United States·1966
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No. 368.
A Book Named “John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure” v. Attorney General of Massachusetts.
Charles J. Keating, Jr., and James J. Clancy on the motion.
Charles Rembar for appellant in opposition.
[MAJORITY]
Appeal from Sup. Jud. Ct. Mass. (Probable jurisdiction noted, ante, p. 900.) Motion for leave to file supplemental brief by Citizens for Decent Literature, Inc., as amicus curiae, denied.