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EVE PRODUCTIONS, INC. v. SHANNON

No. 20308.

439 F.2d 1073 (1971)

EVE PRODUCTIONS, INC., Russ Meyer, St. Louis Orpheum Corporation, Ronnie J. Sellers, Donald S. Meyers and Howard Flier, Appellants, v. Thomas W. SHANNON, as Prosecuting Attorney for the City of St. Louis, Robert W. Van Dillen, as City Counselor of the City of St. Louis, Joseph Soehngen, as Sergeant in Charge of the Vice Squad of the Police Department of the City of St. Louis, and Officer Lorraine Geders, as Policewoman in Said Squad, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

March 16, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert J. Stephan, Jr., Paul B. Rava, St. Louis, Mo., for appellants; Elmer Gertz, Chicago, Ill., Lashly, Caruthers, Rava, Hyndman & Rutherford, St. Louis, Mo., of counsel.

Bernard Edelman, Asst. Pros. Atty., St. Louis, Mo., for Thomas W. Shannon.

Robert W. Van Dillen, City Counselor, Eugene P. Freeman, John J. Fitzgibbon, Associate City Counselors, St. Louis, Mo., for Robert W. Van Dillen, Joseph Soehngen and Officer Lorraine Geders.

Before VAN OOSTERHOUT, GIBSON and LAY, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

This appeal arises from the federal district court's denial of injunctive relief from prosecution in St. Louis City Court under two municipal obscenity ordinances. Plaintiff, Eve Productions, Inc., is the distributor of the motion picture film "Vixen"; plaintiff Meyer is the creator, director and producer of "Vixen"; plaintiff, St. Louis Orpheum Corporation (Loew's), is the owner and operator of Loew's Mid-City motion picture theatre; plaintiffs Sellers...

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