WAYNE CTY. PROSECUTOR v. TRANS-LUX MICHIGAN CO.

Docket No. 10452.

37 Mich. App. 644 (1972)

195 N.W.2d 311

WAYNE COUNTY PROSECUTOR v. TRANS-LUX MICHIGAN CO.

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided January 19, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William L. Cahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, and Aloysius J. Suchy and Adam P. Angelas, Assistant Prosecuting Attorneys, for plaintiff.

Shellow & Shellow and Marc Stickgold (James A. Walrath, of counsel), for defendant.

Before: LESINSKI, C.J., and LEVIN and O'HARA, JJ.


O'HARA, J.

This is a case of statutory construction. In general terms it is a controversy in what has come to be known as "obscenity" or "pornography" cases. It is a troubled area of law, and to a large extent the whole field has been preempted by the United States Supreme Court.

We do not believe that the precise point we decide here is controlled by Federal Supreme Court precedent or precedent of the Michigan Supreme Court.

The involved statute,...

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