Legal Opinion
Flynt v. Leis
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided April 12, 1978No. 77-3426PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MERRITT, Circuit Judge.
The Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton County, Ohio, has refused to allow two out-of-state lawyers, Herald Price Fahringer and Paul J. Cambria, Jr., to appear pro hac vice (meaning “for this turn” or case) on behalf of publisher Larry Flynt and Hustler Magazine, Inc., defendants in a pending state criminal obscenity case. After an unsuccessful attempt to obtain a writ of mandamus from the Supreme Court of Ohio, the two lawyers and their clients filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. They alleged a violation of the Sixth…
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3Cited by19 opinions
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