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SOVEREIGN NEWS CO. v. FALKE

No. C77-230.

448 F.Supp. 306 (1977)

SOVEREIGN NEWS CO., Plaintiff, v. Lee C. FALKE, Prosecuting Attorney for Montgomery County, Ohio, and E. R. Robinson and C. L. Dalrymple, and John T. Corrigan, Prosecuting Attorney for Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and Roy Warner, L. Thompson, John Crawford, Archie Catavolos, Kenneth White, William Poe, Richard B. Millett, John H. Devine, James Lynsky, Vincent G. Krawulski, Carl Delau, Andrew S. Vanyo, James Kennelley, Robert J. Cermak, Henry Yisha, Gregory Kunz, B. Jones, Richard McIntosh, John McNamara, Edward C. Loucas, Samuel Hennie, Charles Berkey, Robert O'Brien, and the following members of the Police Department of the City of Cleveland, Ohio, whose full names are unknown at this time: Kaminski, Banyon, McGreer (Badge No. 1583), and John Doe I, John Doe II, and John Doe III, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Ohio, E. D.

October 31, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard A. Berkman, Berkman, Gordon, Kancelbaum & Levy, Cleveland, Ohio, for plaintiff.

William J. Brown, Atty. Gen. of Ohio, Thomas V. Martin, Asst. Atty. Gen., Columbus, Ohio, James A. Brogan, First Asst. County Pros., Dayton, Ohio, for amicus curiae.

Jack M. Schulman, Director of Law, Bruce A. Taylor, Asst. Director of Law, Cleveland, Ohio, Herbert Creech, Asst. Pros. Atty., Dayton, Ohio, for Falke.

Smith, Warder, Arter & Hadden, Cleveland, Ohio, Timothy J. Armstrong, Asst. Pros. Atty., Cleveland, Ohio, for Robinson and Dalrymple.

MEMORANDUM OF OPINION

JUDGMENT ORDER

MANOS, District Judge.

I.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

On March 7, 1977, the plaintiff, Sovereign News Company,1 filed this action seeking compensatory and punitive damages, a declaratory judgment, and preliminary and permanent injunctions restraining both the Cuyahoga County, Ohio and Montgomery County, Ohio prosecutors, and all the defendant Cleveland and Dayton police...

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