DUNAGIN v. CITY OF OXFORD, MISS.

Nos. 80-3762, 82-4076.

718 F.2d 738 (1983)

Kathy DUNAGIN, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The CITY OF OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI, et al., Defendants-Appellees, The State of Mississippi, Intervenor-Appellee. LAMAR OUTDOOR ADVERTISING, INC., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. MISSISSIPPI STATE TAX COMMISSION, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 31, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Holcomb, Dunbar, Connell, Merkel, Tollison & Khayat, Dan W. Webb, Grady F. Tollison, Jr., Guy T. Gillespie, III, Oxford, Miss., for plaintiffs-appellants in No. 80-3762.

James K. Child, Jr., Jackson, Miss., Henry E. Chatham, Jr., Jack H. Pittman, Hattiesburg, Miss., for Lamar Outdoor Advertising, et al. in both cases.

Richard D. Gamblin, Hattiesburg, Miss., for plaintiffs-appellees in No. 82-4076.

John E. Milner, W. Timothy Jones, Edmund L. Brunini, Sr., Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., Peter M. Stockett, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for State of Miss. in No. 80-3762 and for defendants-appellants in No. 82-4076.

William S. Boyd, III, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for State of Miss. in No. 80-3762.

Gary W. Gardenhire, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chief, Civ. Div., Oklahoma City, Okl., for State of Okl. in both cases.

F. Edwin Perry, Oxford, Miss., for City of Oxford, in No. 80-3762.

Bruce Silverglade, Washington, D.C., amicus curiae for Center for Science in the Public Interest.

Peter H. Meyers, John F. Banzhaf, III, Washington, D.C., amicus curiae for Accuracy and Action about Alcohol Addiction.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, BROWN, GOLDBERG, GEE, REAVLEY, POLITZ, RANDALL, TATE, JOHNSON, WILLIAMS, GARWOOD, JOLLY and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges.


REAVLEY, Circuit Judge:

Mississippi is one of several states which significantly restrict liquor advertising by the local media.1 Two suits were filed attacking, principally on First Amendment grounds, the Mississippi law. The District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi reached opposite judgments in those cases. Dunagin v. City of Oxford, 489...

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