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ATLANTA COOP. NEWS PROJECT v. UNITED STATES POSTAL SERV.

Civ. A. No. 16538.

350 F.Supp. 234 (1972)

ATLANTA COOPERATIVE NEWS PROJECT, a Cooperative Association, et al., Plaintiffs, v. The UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, an Independent Establishment of the Executive Branch of the United States Government, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Georgia, Atlanta Division.

September 29, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey I. Jacobson, Emily Carssow, and Morris Brown, Reber F. Boult, Jr., D. Freeman Hutton, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiffs.

Beverly Bates, Asst. U. S. Atty., N. D. of Georgia, Atlanta, for defendants.

Before MORGAN, Circuit Judge; MOYE and O'KELLEY, District Judges.

OPINION AND ORDER

PER CURIAM:

This suit challenges the constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 1461, 39 U.S.C. § 3001 and 39 C.F.R. § 953.1, et seq., facially and as applied as violating plaintiff's First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and freedom of the press by imposing prior restraints on the distribution of news material. There are three named plaintiffs in this case: Atlanta Cooperative News Project [hereinafter News Project],

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