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SPRINT CORP. v. EVANS

Civ. A. No. 93-T-284-N.

818 F.Supp. 1447 (1993)

SPRINT CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. James H. EVANS, Attorney General of the State of Alabama, Defendant.

United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, N.D.

April 7, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph B. Mays, Jr., Birmingham, AL, Kevin R. Sullivan, Deborah M. Lerner, Pillsbury Madison & Sutro, Washington, DC, David M. Eisenberg and Arthur A. Chaykin, Sprint Corp. Kansas City, MO, for plaintiff.

H. Lewis Gillis, Thomas, Means & Gillis, P.C., Donald V. Watkins, Montgomery, AL, for defendant.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

MYRON H. THOMPSON, Chief Judge.

With this lawsuit, plaintiff Sprint Corporation challenges the "manner" in which defendant James H. Evans, Attorney General of Alabama, seeks to apply the Alabama criminal anti-obscenity statute, 1975 Alabama Code §§ 13A-12-200.1, et seq., to the company's provision of interstate "800" telephone service. Sprint contends that Evans's efforts would violate federal law in two ways. First, application...

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