Legal Opinion
Fort Wayne Books, Inc. v. Indiana
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 21, 1989No. 87-470PublishedCited by 166 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*50Justice White
delivered the opinion of the Court. ‡
We have before us two decisions of the Indiana courts, involving the application of that State’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) and Civil Remedies for Racketeering Activity (CRRA) Acts to cases involving bookstores containing allegedly obscene materials.
I
The two causes before us arise from wholly unrelated incidents.
A
Petitioner in No. 87-470, Fort Wayne Books, Inc., and two other corporations1 each operated an “adult bookstore” in Fort Wayne, Indiana. On March 19, 1984, the State of Indiana and a local prosecutor,…
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