Cambist Films, Inc. v. Duggan

OPINION

DUMBAULD, District Judge.

Plaintiff holds United States and Canadian rights for distribution of an Argentine motion picture film entitled “The Female”, of which it owns 70 prints. In general 25 or more are in simultaneous use, but about once a year all 70 would be needed. This action is brought under the “Ku Klux Act” of April 20, 1871, 17 Stat. 13, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, 1 to recover five prints seized without a warrant of any kind by law enforcement authorities in Allegheny County and Westmoreland County. 2 Plaintiff invokes the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution.…