Brooks v. Briley
District Court, M.D. Tennessee
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM E. MILLER, District Judge.
In this action we are requested to strike down and to enjoin the enforcement of numerous state criminal laws and municipal ordinances for alleged vagueness and overbreadth and for invalidity as applied to plaintiffs and others similarly situated. Giving rise to the litigation were the North Nashville riots which occurred on April 8, 9 and 10, 1967, an outbreak of violence and lawlessness which led to police intervention and subsequent arrests and criminal charges. *541For the reasons stated in this opinion we must emphatically reject the plaintiffs’ invitation…
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2Cases cited35 opinions
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- Chaplinsky v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
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- Massachusetts v. MellonSupreme Court of the United States · 1923
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- J. L. Leflore v. James RobinsonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1970
- William Goldman Theatres, Inc. v. Paramount Film Distributing Corp.District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1969
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