Legal Opinion
J.N.S., Inc. v. State of Indiana, Lindley Pearson, as Attorney General of the State of Indiana
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 15, 1983No. 82-2879PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ESCHBACH, Circuit Judge.
J.N.S., Inc. (“J.N.S.”) appeals from the district court’s dismissal of its complaint for lack of standing. J.N.S. had sought to challenge the constitutionality of the Indiana civil anti-racketeering statute and the district court held that J.N.S. had not suffered sufficient actual or threatened injury to present a “case or controversy.” For the reasons below, we affirm.
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J.N.S. describes itself as a business engaged in the distribution of sexually explicit materials protected by the First Amendment. On two occasions, once in January 1979 and once in November 1981,…
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