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LEWIS v. BAXLEY

Civ. A. No. 4182-N.

368 F.Supp. 768 (1973)

Jesse J. LEWIS and the National Democratic Party of Alabama, an Association incorporated and operating under the laws of the State of Alabama, Plaintiffs, Sigma Delta Chi, Professional Journalistic Society, Alabama Professional Chapter, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. William BAXLEY, as Attorney General of Alabama, Defendant.

United States District Court, M. D. Alabama, N. D.

December 21, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morris S. Dees, Jr., Joseph J. Levin, Jr., Charles F. Abernathy, of Montgomery, Ala., and Orzell Billingsley Jr., Birmingham, Ala., for plaintiffs and plaintiff-intervenor.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., George Beck, Deputy Atty. Gen., and George W. Royer, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., for defendant.

Before RIVES, Circuit Judge, and JOHNSON and VARNER, District Judges.

JOHNSON, District Judge:

Plaintiffs,1 suing on their own behalf and as representatives of a class composed of newsmen reporting on state governmental activities in Alabama, seek to have one section of the new Alabama ethics statute2 declared unconstitutional on its face and to have its enforcement enjoined. Plaintiffs invoke the jurisdiction of this Court pursuant...

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