Legal Opinion
Upper Midwest Booksellers Ass'n v. City of Minneapolis
District Court, D. Minnesota
Decided February 25, 1985No. Civ. 4-85-5PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
MacLAUGHLIN, District Judge.
This matter is before the Court on plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary and permanent injunction 1 restraining the City of Minneapolis from enforcing that portion of a city ordinance which would prohibit the open display of sexually explicit materials which are deemed harmful to minors.
FACTS
The action before the Court is a first amendment challenge to a Minneapolis city ordinance which requires that certain sexually explicit books, magazines, and other materials 2 deemed harmful to minors be kept in sealed wrappers and that the covers of certain…
2Cases cited47 opinions
- Baker v. CarrSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Grayned v. City of RockfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Broadrick v. OklahomaSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Grayned v. City of RockfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Massachusetts v. OakesSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- American Booksellers v. James WebbCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1990
- Ripplinger v. CollinsCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1989
- Ripplinger v. CollinsCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1989
- Upper Midwest Booksellers Ass'n v. City of MinneapolisCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1985
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