WISEMAN v. MASSACHUSETTS, 398 U.S. 960 (6-15-1970)

WISEMAN et al. v. MASSACHUSETTS et al.

No. 621.
June 15, 1970, OCTOBER TERM, 1969.

Sup. Jud. Ct. Mass. Certiorari denied. Reported below: 356 Mass. 251, 249 N. E. 2d 610.

MR. JUSTICE HARLAN, with whom MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS and MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN join, dissenting.

Petitioners seek review in this Court of a decision of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court enjoining the commercial distribution to general audiences of the film “Titticut Follies.” Petitioners’ film is a “documentary” of life in Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane. Its stark portrayal of patient-routine and treatment of the inmates is at once a scathing indictment of the inhumane conditions that prevailed at the time of the film and an undeniable infringement of the

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