CAMBIST FILMS, INC. v. STATE OF ILLINOIS

No. 68 C 1714.

292 F.Supp. 185 (1968)

CAMBIST FILMS, INC., a New York corporation, Plaintiff, v. STATE OF ILLINOIS, George Sangmeister, State's Attorney of Will County, Illinois, Martin Jackson, Sheriff of Will County, Illinois and Dennis Jaskoviak, Chief Deputy Sheriff of Will County, Illinois, Defendants.

United States District Court N. D. Illinois, E. D.

Opinion October 21, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell G. Miller, Mass & Miller, Chicago, Ill., Jerald S. Galowich, Galowich, Galowich & McSteen, Joliet, Ill., for plaintiff.

William G. Clark, by Michael Lyons, Chicago, Ill., for defendants.


FINDINGS OF FACT and CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

WILL, District Judge.

This is an action brought under the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, in which plaintiff, Cambist Films, seeks injunctive relief from the seizure of a motion picture and from a criminal prosecution based on the alleged offense of obscenity. The Court, having considered the pleadings, exhibits and statements of counsel, and after having viewed the motion picture film entitled "Aroused",...

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