ATHENEUM BOOK STORE, INC. v. CITY OF MIAMI BEACH

No. 74-438.

420 U.S. 982 (1975)

ATHENEUM BOOK STORE, INC. v. CITY OF MIAMI BEACH.

Supreme Court of United States.

March 17, 1975.


Certiorari denied.

MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN, with whom MR. JUSTICE STEWART and MR. JUSTICE MARSHALL join, dissenting.

On June 15, 1971, a Miami Beach Municipal Court Judge ordered the materials in petitioner's bookstore seized for use as evidence at a subsequent trial. The order followed a 13-minute examination of the store's contents which convinced the judge that some of the publications on sale "based upon previous judicial decisions, constitute hard core pornography...

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