Legal Opinion
Penthouse International, Ltd. v. McAuliffe
District Court, N.D. Georgia
Decided August 24, 1977No. Civ. A. 77-1238A, 77-1240A, 77-1268A, 77-1277A and 77-1276APublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
RICHARD C. FREEMAN, District Judge.
These are actions brought for declaratory and preliminary as well as permanent injunctive relief 1 concerning the consequences of several arrests by the Solicitor General of Fulton County, Georgia, pursuant to Ga.Code § 26-2101, 2 the Georgia obscenity statute. Plaintiffs are publishers of several monthly magazines 3 whose primary local distributor and several local retailers were arrested by agents of defendant McAuliffe between July 18, 1977 and July 29, 1977. 4 Plaintiffs’ substantive claims arise under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the…
2Cases cited56 opinions
- Younger v. HarrisSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Ex Parte YoungSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
- Coolidge v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Baker v. CarrSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Gerstein v. PughSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Penthouse International, Ltd. v. McAuliffeCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1980
- Clark Const. Co., Inc. v. PenaDistrict Court, M.D. Alabama · 1996
- PHE, Inc. v. United States Department of JusticeDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 1990
- Robinson v. StovallCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1981
- Penthouse International, Ltd. v. McAuliffeDistrict Court, N.D. Georgia · 1978
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