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UNITED STATES v. HEAD

Crim. A. No. 32036.

317 F.Supp. 1138 (1970)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Robert Grady HEAD, Jr., Darlene Fife, and Southern Louisiana Media, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

September 1, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael H. Ellis, Asst. U. S. Atty., for plaintiff.

John S. Martin, New York City, Richard B. Sobol, Washington, D. C., George M. Strickler, New Orleans, La., for defendants.

RUBIN, District Judge:

This case, reportedly the first prosecution of an underground newspaper under the federal obscenity laws, is before the court on a motion to dismiss the indictment. The defendants publish NOLA Express, a radical biweekly that circulates mainly in the New Orleans metropolitan area. The newspaper is distributed primarily through street vendors, most of them young people living in New Orleans' French Quarter, but a number of papers are mailed to...

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