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· 1/14/1971

Blount v. Rizzi

Citations

  • 400 U.S. 410
  • 91 S. Ct. 423
  • 27 L. Ed. 2d 498
  • 1971 U.S. LEXIS 94

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that “it is for Congress, not this Court, to rewrite the statute.”
  • noting that prior restraints \require 'prompt judicial review' * * * to prevent the administrative decision of the censor from achieving an effect of finality\
  • noting that prior restraints “require ‘prompt 19 judicial review’ * * * to prevent the administrative decision of the censor from achieving an effect of finality”
  • stating that in Freedman the Court “held that to avoid constitutional infirmity a scheme of administrative censorship must ... require ‘prompt judicial review—a final judicial determination on the merits within a specified, brief period”
  • declaring that “it is for Congress, not this Court, to rewrite the statute”
  • invalidating postal rules permitting restrictions on the use of the mails for allegedly obscene materials because the rules lacked Freedman safeguards

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Judges: Brennan, Bkennan, Burger, Douglas, Harlan, Stewart, White, Marshall, Blackmun, Black

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