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1973 United States Supreme Court case
Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton Full case name Paris Adult Theatre I et al., Petitioners, v. Lewis R. Slaton, District Attorney, Atlanta Judicial Circuit, et al. Citations 413 U.S. 49 (more ) A civil injunction barring the theatres in question from showing adult films was upheld; however, the State's definitions of obscene material must be re-evaluated in light of recent jurisprudence.
Chief Justice
Warren E. Burger
Associate Justices
William O. Douglas · William J. Brennan Jr. Potter Stewart · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Rehnquist
Majority Burger, joined by White, Blackmun, Powell, Rehnquist Dissent Douglas Dissent Brennan, joined by Stewart, Marshall
Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton , 413 U.S. 49 (1973), was a case in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a state court's injunction against the showing of obscene films in a movie theatre restricted to consenting adults .[ 1] The Court distinguished the case from Stanley v. Georgia ,[ 2] saying that the privacy of the home that was controlling in Stanley was not present in the commercial exhibition of obscene movies in a theatre.
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