MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, INC. v. SPECTER

No. 70-1751.

315 F.Supp. 824 (1970)

MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, INC., et al., v. Arlen SPECTER, District Attorney of Philadelphia.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

August 12, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, Irving R. Segal, Samuel D. Slade, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Arlen Specter, Dist. Atty. of Philadelphia, David Richman, Asst. Dist. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant.

Before HASTIE, Chief Judge, Circuit Court of Appeals, and KRAFT and BODY, District Judges.


OPINION AND ORDER

KRAFT, District Judge.

The plaintiffs here challenge the constitutionality of a recently enacted amendment to Pennsylvania's Penal Code.1 Following the entry of a temporary restraining order2 on June 29, 1970, a Three-Judge Court was convened.3 At the hearing on the plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction...

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