ENGSTROM v. ROBINSON

Civ. A. No. 5416-69.

317 F.Supp. 124 (1969)

Roswell ENGSTROM, Plaintiff, v. James ROBINSON, Individually and as Chief of Police of the City of Mobile, Joseph Romagnano, individually and as Lieutenant, City of Mobile Police Department, Fred Collins, individually and as City Attorney of the City of Mobile, T. Raymond Williams, individually and as City Prosecutor of the City of Mobile, Alabama, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. Alabama, S. D.

Decree July 22, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Graham Gibbons, Gibbons & Stokes, Mobile, Ala., for plaintiff.

T. Raymond Williams, Mobile, Ala., for defendants.


TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER

PITTMAN, District Judge.

At preliminary hearings in this cause it has been acknowledged in open court that within the last year the defendants have seized quantities of books, magazines, and calendars without a prior judicial adversary hearing to determine the obscenity of the seized books, etc. It has been clearly established by the Supreme Court of the United States that such a seizure...

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