AUSTIN v. KENTUCKY

No. 453.

384 U.S. 916 (1966)

AUSTIN v. KENTUCKY.

Supreme Court of United States.

April 25, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley Fleishman and Sam Rosenwein for petitioner. Robert Matthews, Attorney General of Kentucky, and John B. Browning, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent. Edgar A. Zingman and Joseph S. Freeland for Kentucky Civil Liberties Union, as amicus curiae, in support of the petition.


Certiorari granted limited to Question 2 presented by the petition which reads as follows:

"2. Whether Section 436.100 of Kentucky Revised Statutes, on its face and as construed and applied, abridges freedoms of speech and press and arbitrarily deprives persons, including petitioner, of liberty without due process of law contrary to the provisions of the First, Fifth and Sixth Amendments as subsumed into the due process provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment to the...

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