Legal Opinion
Royal News Company, an Ohio Corporation v. Dewey Schultz, Samuel H. Olsen, Prosecuting Attorney of Wayne County, Michigan, Applicant-Appellant
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 19, 1965No. 16328PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Per curiam
The original action was filed by Royal News Company, an Ohio corporation, owner and operator of a retail bookshop known as the “House of Books” in Highland Park, Michigan, against the chief of police, the city attorney and the assistant city attorney of Highland Park. Jurisdiction was based upon 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985(3) and 28 U.S.C. §§ 1343(3) and 1343(4).
The complaint alleged that city police had seized from plaintiff’s bookshop some 425 publications devoted to nudism and has arrested the manager of plaintiff’s bookshop, all by authority of City Ordinance No. 603 which undertakes to…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- O. C. Thaxton, T. N. Burton, and Virgil Wood v. William Vaughan, MayorCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1963
- Royal News Co. v. SchultzDistrict Court, E.D. Michigan · 1964
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