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HUSTLER MAGAZINE, INC. v. MORAL MAJORITY INC.

No. 85-5904.

796 F.2d 1148 (1986)

HUSTLER MAGAZINE, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MORAL MAJORITY, INC., a District of Columbia Corporation; Old Time Gospel Hour, a Virginia Corporation and Jerry Falwell, an individual, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided August 12, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David O. Carson, Cooper, Epstein, & Hurewitz, Beverly Hills, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant.

Jewel Bjork, Grutman, Miller, Greenspoon, Handler & Levin, New York City, for defendants-appellees.

Before PREGERSON and POOLE, Circuit Judges, and SOLOMON, Senior District Judge.

PREGERSON, Circuit Judge.

Hustler Magazine, Inc. published a parody featuring Reverend Jerry Falwell. Moral Majority, Inc. and Old Time Gospel Hour mailed hundreds of thousands of copies of the parody as part of a solicitation drive. Falwell also solicited contributions while displaying the parody on the Old Time Gospel Hour, a television show. Hustler Magazine, Inc. sued Moral Majority, Inc., Old Time Gospel Hour, and Falwell for copyright infringement. The district...

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