U. S. Manufacturing & Distributing Corp v. City of Great Falls

The district court of the eighth judicial district, Cascade County, has declared a portion of Montana’s recently amended obscenity law, sections 94-8-110 and 94-8-110.1, R.C.M.1947, to be constitutionally infirm. In this appeal from that declaratory judgment we reverse the determination of the district court and uphold the obscenity law enacted by the Forty-fourth Legislature.

The constitutional issue here arose from a somewhat complicated procedural setting. 'U. S. Manufacturing and Distributing Corporation, hereinafter réferred to as appellant, sought a temporary restraining order against…