Legal Opinion
California Ex Rel. Cooper v. Mitchell Brothers' Santa Ana Theater
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 5, 1982No. 81-271PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Per curiam
The petition for certiorari is granted limited to Question 2 presented in the petition, namely, whether a city, in a public nuisance abatement action brought against a motion picture theater, must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the motion pictures at issue are obscene.1
The Santa Ana City Attorney brought this action against respondents to abate a public nuisance pursuant to Cal. Civ. Proc. Code Ann. §731 (West 1980).2 The com*91plaint alleged that numerous films shown by the respondents were obscene and thus constituted a public nuisance as defined by Cal. Civ. Code Ann. §§3479, 3480 (West…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Schneiderman v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
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3Cited by69 opinions
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- Ferguson v. WatkinsMississippi Supreme Court · 1984
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