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WILD CINEMAS OF LITTLE ROCK, INC. v. BENTLEY

No. LR C 77 228.

499 F.Supp. 655 (1980)

WILD CINEMAS OF LITTLE ROCK, INC. et al., Plaintiffs, v. Wilbur C. BENTLEY et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Arkansas, W. D.

October 17, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Weston, G. Randall Garrou, of Brown, Weston & Sarno, Beverly Hills, Cal., Robert J. Brown, Little Rock, Ark., for plaintiffs.

Larry D. Vaught, Deputy Pros. Atty., Joseph H. Purvis, Deputy Atty. Gen., James F. Dowden, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lester A. McKinley, Asst. City Atty., Little Rock, Ark., for defendants.

OPINION AND ORDER

OVERTON, District Judge.

This case presents the Court with what Mr. Justice Harlan referred to as the "intractable problem" of obscenity. Memoirs v. Massachusetts, 383 U.S. 413, 86 S.Ct. 975, 16 L.Ed.2d 1 (1966) (Harlan, J., dissenting). Pending before the Court for over three years now has been plaintiff Wild Cinemas' action for declaratory injunctive relief against the Arkansas obscenity statute...

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