Eagle Books, Inc. v. Jones

Pornography is, at best, a seamy business.

But as distasteful as it may be to most of us, it is still legal to traffic in it—at least as of this writing.

Eagle Books/Urbana News is an adult bookstore. It filed a complaint on August 3, 1984, seeking preliminary and permanent injunctive relief from certain picketing activities which defendants conducted at plaintiff’s business premises. On August 7, 1984, a hearing was held, and the circuit court preliminarily enjoined defendants from trespassing on plaintiff’s business premises and from blocking access to the business.

However, the court denied…