Legal Opinion
G. I. Distributors, Inc. v. Murphy
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided January 19, 1972No. 72 Civ. 95PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDWARD WEINFELD, District Judge.
Plaintiffs, G. I. Distributors, Inc., a magazine and book distributor, and Data Affiliates, Inc., a computer service company, bring this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C., section 1983, and preliminarily move for the return of their respective properties seized by the defendants pursuant to warrants of seizure issued by judges of the Criminal Court of the City of New York. It was a massive seizure —the plaintiffs’ premises were stripped clean. In the instance of the plaintiff distributor, initially six samples each of fifty-five alleged obscene magazines were…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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3Cited by10 opinions
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