Legal Opinion
Studio Art Theatre of Evansville, Inc. v. City of Evansville
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 31, 1996No. 95-2374PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.
This appeal involves application of issue preclusion (collateral estoppel) and claim preclusion (res judicata) under Indiana law. Studio Art Theatre of Evansville, Indiana, and its president William Montrose filed this suit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 28 U.S.C. § 2201 alleging that an Indiana statute violated various provisions of the federal Constitution. Studio Art was previously convicted in the Circuit Court of Vanderburgh County, Indiana, of violating the state RICO statute, Ind.Code § 35^5-6-2(3), with a predicate offense of unlawfully selling pornographic…
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