Cameron v. Johnson

Appellants brought this action for declaratory and in-junctive relief in the District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. They sought a judgment declaring that the Mississippi Anti-Picketing Law1 is an overly *613broad and vague regulation of expression, and therefore void on its face. They also sought a permanent injunction restraining appellees — the Governor and other Mississippi officials — from enforcing the statute in pending or future criminal prosecutions or otherwise, alleging that the then pending prosecutions against them for violating the statute2 were part of a plan of…