GAYETY THEATRES, INC. v. STATE EX REL. GERSTEIN

No. 77-873.

359 So.2d 915 (1978)

GAYETY THEATRES, INC., D/B/a Pussycat Theatre and Leroy C. Griffith, William Finigan, Lou Hollander and Sanford Oleesky, Appellants, v. STATE of Florida ex rel. Richard E. GERSTEIN, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

June 20, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Weinstein & Krasnow, Miami Beach, for appellants.

Janet Reno, State's Atty. and Milton Robbins, Asst. State's Atty., for appellee.

Before PEARSON, HUBBART and KEHOE, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

By this appeal we are asked to review the propriety of a civil contempt order entered in the Circuit Court for the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida based on a violation of a prior court order which had enjoined the showing of the film "Deep Throat" on grounds of obscenity under Section 847.011, Florida Statutes (1977). No appeal was taken from the prior injunctive order. We affirm the civil contempt order...

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