The Court ruled that provisions of the New York State law allowing censors to ban motion pictures they determined to be "sacrilegious" violated the First Amendment as a restraint on free speech.
[2] With the case Kingsley International Pictures Corp. v. Regents of the University of the State of New York,[5] London won further constitutional protection for the movies.
[6] Bruce and Cafe Au Go Go owner Howard Solomon were twice charged with obscenity by New York City police and were subsequently convicted.
(Slochower v. Board of Higher Education of New York City) He was less successful handling the appeal of Dr. Robert Soblen, a convicted Soviet spy, when Soblen fled to Israel while London was handling his appeal in 1962, necessitating the forfeiture of $60,000 in bail raised by his law partner, Helen Lehman Buttenweiser (equivalent to approximately $604,356 in 2023 dollars[7]).
He was survived by his wife, the former Pearl Levison; a son, Peter, of Manhattan, and a sister, Irma Fraad of Riverdale, the Bronx.