Allied Artists Pictures Corp. v. Alford

MEMORANDUM OPINION

WELLFORD, District Judge.

In August, 1968, the City of Memphis enacted an ordinance which both defines what is “obscene to juveniles” and prohibits generally the dissemination to juveniles (defined as less than eighteen (18) years of age) of material which falls within that definition. The ordinance is similar to a New York statute which was approved by the Supreme Court in Ginsberg v. New York, 390 U.S. 629, 88 S.Ct. 1274, 20 L.Ed.2d 195 (1968). Since 1968, the ordinance has been amended several times adding a section on “excess violence” 1 and a section dealing with…