Legal Opinion
Community Television of Utah, Inc. v. Wilkinson
District Court, D. Utah
Decided April 10, 1985No. C 83-0551A, C 83-0581APublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALDON J. ANDERSON, Senior District Judge.
INTRODUCTION
On April 20, 1983, the Utah State Legislature passed the Cable Television Programming Decency Act (“Cable Decency Act”). Utah Code Ann. §§ 76-10-1701 to -1708 (Supp.1983). The Act gives certain state officials authority to bring nuisance actions against anyone who continuously and “knowingly distributes indecent material within this state over any cable television system or pay-for-viewing television programming.” Id. § 76-10-1703. The Act defines “indecent material” as follows:
a visual or verbal depiction, display, representation,…
2Cases cited36 opinions
- New York Times Co. v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Broadrick v. OklahomaSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Roth v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. ButtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Miller v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Jones v. WilkinsonCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1986
- American Information Enterprises, Inc. v. ThornburghDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1990
- American Booksellers Ass'n, Inc. v. SchiffDistrict Court, D. New Mexico · 1986
- Ago, Florida Attorney General Reports1986
- Jones v. WilkinsonCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1986
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