Case ID: so2d_352/html/1023-04.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      SANDERS, C. J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

EDWARDS DRIVE IN, INC. d/b/a Joy Drive In Theater and John Marcum d/b/a B. J.’s Pepper Patch v. Leonard E. YOKUM, District Attorney for the Parish of Tangipahoa.
    No. 61076.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Nov. 29, 1977.
   In re: Edwards Drive In, Inc. d/b/a Joy Drive In Theater and John Marcum d/b/a B. J.’s Pepper Patch, applying for writs of certiorari, prohibition, mandamus, and for stay order. Parish of Tangipahoa.

Writ granted. Search warrant quashed. Mass seizure. See Quantity of Copies of Books v. Kansas, 378 U.S. 205, 84 S.Ct. 1723, 12 L.Ed.2d 809 (1964). Motion to suppress granted. All materials seized ordered released to relator.

SANDERS, C. J.,

dissents from the granting of the motion to suppress, being of the opinion that the seizure should be reduced to one copy of the film.

SUMMERS, J., dissents.