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UNITED ARTISTS CORPORATION v. HARRIS

Civ. A. No. CIV-73-498-D.

363 F.Supp. 857 (1973)

UNITED ARTISTS CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. Curtis P. HARRIS, Individually and as District Attorney for Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, Defendant.

United States District Court, W. D. Oklahoma.

August 23, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward E. Soule, James C. Chandler, and Peter T. Van Dyke, Oklahoma City, Okl., and William M. Pinzler, New York City (Louis Nizer, Gerald F. Phillips and Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin, Krim & Ballon, New York City, and Lytle, Soule & Emery, Oklahoma City, Okl., on the brief), for plaintiff.

Curtis P. Harris, Dist. Atty., for Oklahoma County, for defendant.

Fred H. Anderson, Asst. Atty. Gen. for The Honorable David Hall, Governor of the State of Oklahoma, and Larry Derryberry, Atty. Gen., of the State of Oklahoma.

Before HOLLOWAY, Circuit Judge, DAUGHERTY, Chief Judge and EUBANKS, District Judge.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND JUDGMENT

HOLLOWAY, Circuit Judge.

This is an action for injunctive and declaratory relief against seizure of the film "Last Tango in Paris" (Tango) and prosecution under the Oklahoma obscenity statutes for its exhibition.1 The plaintiff United Artists Corporation (United), as distributor of the film, claims that the statutes violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Federal Constitution. Among...

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