ABSTRACT
In Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton, 413 US 49, the US Supreme Court upheld a Georgia Supreme Court decision that declared two movies shown at the Paris Adult Theatre in Atlanta "obscene." After being notified that the Paris Theatre was showing films that were "obscene" if not "hard-core pornography," Fulton County dispatched two undercover investigators to view the two films in December 1970. In a separate dissent, joined by Justices Thurgood Marshall and Potter Stewart, Justice William J. Brennan Jr. called for greater freedom of expression rather than the restrictions the Court applied in Paris Theatre. Brennan contended that extended freedom would "introduce a large measure of clarity to this troubled area would reduce the institutional pressure on this Court and the rest of the State and Federal Judiciary."
