| Litigants: | Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton |
| Arguedate: | October 19 |
| Argueyear: | 1972 |
| Decidedate: | June 21 |
| Decideyear: | 1973 |
| Fullname: | Paris Adult Theatre I et al., Petitioners, v. Lewis R. Slaton, District Attorney, Atlanta Judicial Circuit, et al. |
| Usvol: | 413 |
| Uspage: | 49 |
| Parallelcitations: | 93 S. Ct. 2628; 37 L. Ed. 2d 446 |
| Holding: | 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. |
| Majority: | Burger |
| Joinmajority: | White, Blackmun, Powell, Rehnquist |
| Dissent: | Douglas |
| Dissent2: | Brennan |
| Joindissent2: | 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.