Legal Opinion
Sprint Corp. v. Evans
District Court, M.D. Alabama
Decided April 7, 1993No. Civ. A. 93-T-284-NPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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 of the state statute as Evans seeks to enforce it is preempted by the Communications Act of 1934, 47 U.S.C.A. §§ 151, et seq., and, second, such…
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3Cited by4 opinions
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