|
|
Dyson v. Stein, 401 U.S. 200 (1971)
Contents:
Show Summary
Hide Summary
General SummaryThis case is from a collection containing the full text of over 16,000 Supreme Court cases from 1793 to the present. The body of Supreme Court decisions are, effectively, the final interpretation of the Constitution. Only an amendment to the Constitution can permanently overturn an interpretation and this has happened only four times in American history.
Dyson v. Stein, 401 U.S. 200 (1971)
Dyson v. Stein No. 41 Argued April 30, 1970 Reargued November 16, 1970 Decided February 23, 1971 401 U.S. 200
APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
Syllabus
Appellee newspaper publisher, who had been charged with violating a Texas law prohibiting the possession of obscene materials, brought this action in a federal district court for an injunction to prevent the Dallas police from arresting him and seizing his property on obscenity grounds without a prior judicial determination of obscenity and for a declaration of the rights of the parties with respect to the statute. A three-judge court was convened and issued declaratory and injunctive relief, holding two parts of the statute unconstitutional and ruling that another part would be constitutional only if the obscenity definition was changed.
Held: There was no finding of irreparable injury to appellee, and hence no proper basis for federal interference with the pending state criminal prosecution. Younger v. Harris, ante, p. 37; Samuels v. Mackell, ante, p. 66.
300 F.Supp. 602, vacated and remanded.
Contents:
Chicago: U.S. Supreme Court, "Syllabus," Dyson v. Stein, 401 U.S. 200 (1971) in 401 U.S. 200 401 U.S. 201. Original Sources, accessed May 20, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=RGHTEWF6JCLMX6E.
MLA: U.S. Supreme Court. "Syllabus." Dyson v. Stein, 401 U.S. 200 (1971), in 401 U.S. 200, page 401 U.S. 201. Original Sources. 20 May. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=RGHTEWF6JCLMX6E.
Harvard: U.S. Supreme Court, 'Syllabus' in Dyson v. Stein, 401 U.S. 200 (1971). cited in 1971, 401 U.S. 200, pp.401 U.S. 201. Original Sources, retrieved 20 May 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=RGHTEWF6JCLMX6E.
|