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Gordon v. Christenson

District Court, D. Utah

Decided September 15, 1970No. Nos. C-87-70, C-88-70PublishedCited by 8 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER

LEWIS, Chief Judge.

Each of the plaintiffs in this action has been arrested and is presently charged with violations of sections 76-39-5(5) and 76-39-11, Utah Code Annotated (Supp.1969) commonly referred to as the Utah obscenity statutes.1 Local authorities have voluntarily held the prosecutions in abeyance pending determination by this court of plaintiffs’ claimed right to federal injunctive and declaratory relief through contention that the subject statutes are patently unconstitutional as violative of the first amendment as applied to the states by the…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Roth v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
  2. Dombrowski v. PfisterSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
  3. A Book Named "John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" v. Attorney General of MassachusettsSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  4. Cameron v. JohnsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  5. Walter Sheridan and Richard Townley v. Jim Garrison, Individually and as a District Attorney for the Parish of Orleans, Etc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969

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3Cited by8 opinions

  1. General Corp. v. State Ex Rel. SweetonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1975
  2. United Artists Corporation v. HarrisDistrict Court, W.D. Oklahoma · 1973
  3. Sweeten v. SneddonDistrict Court, D. Utah · 1971
  4. Scott v. FreyDistrict Court, E.D. Louisiana · 1971
  5. United States v. GundlachDistrict Court, M.D. Pennsylvania · 1972

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