STATE CINEMA OF PITTSFIELD, INC. v. RYAN

Civ. A. No. 69-931.

303 F.Supp. 579 (1969)

STATE CINEMA OF PITTSFIELD, INC. v. Matthew J. RYAN, Jr., Esq., William J. Flynn, Esq., and Milo Brown.

United States District Court D. Massachusetts.

September 12, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William P. Homans, Jr., Boston, Mass., for plaintiff.

David H. Tamson, Boston, Mass., for plaintiff.

Matthew J. Ryan, Jr., Dist. Atty., Pittsfield, Mass., for defendants.


OPINION

WYZANSKI, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff, a motion picture exhibitor, relying on the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and 28 U.S.C. Sections 1331 and 1443 and 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, filed a complaint seeking to enjoin a Massachusetts state district attorney, his assistant, and an officer of the Massachusetts state police, from making threats to arrest (Sic!) and prosecute plaintiff if it continued to exhibit a motion picture...

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