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STATE CINEMA OF PITTSFIELD, INC. v. RYAN

No. 7449.

422 F.2d 1400 (1970)

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

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 27, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David H. Lamson, Boston, Mass., for petitioner, appellant.

Lawrence P. Cohen, Asst. Atty. Gen., with whom Robert H. Quinn, Atty., Gen., John J. Irwin, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Chief Criminal Division, and Matthew J. Ryan, Jr., Dist. Atty., were on brief, for respondents, appellees.

Before ALDRICH, Chief Judge, McENTEE and COFFIN, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

Plaintiff, a motion picture exhibitor, was ordered to cease showing the film "Vixen" by a state assistant district attorney and a state police officer on pain of seizure of the print and arrest of its agents,1 presumably for violation of the Massachusetts obscenity statute.2 This action was brought to enjoin the district attorney and state police officer from threatening arrest and prosecution or...

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