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HILLSBORO NEWS CO. v. CITY OF TAMPA

No. 75-208 Civ. T-K.

451 F.Supp. 952 (1978)

HILLSBORO NEWS COMPANY, a Florida Corp., Putt-Hut, Inc., a Florida Corp., d/b/a Little Professor Book Center and Charles Putt, Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF TAMPA, a Florida Municipal Corporation, William Poe, Individually and as Mayor of the City of Tampa, Charles Otero, Individually and as Chief of Police of the City of Tampa, Defendants.

United States District Court, M. D. Florida, Tampa Division.

June 15, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold W. Mullis, Jr. and Wayne L. Thomas, Trenam, Simmons, Kemker, Scharf & Barkin, Tampa, Fla., for plaintiffs.

Henry E. Williams, Jr., City Atty., and Matias Blanco, Jr., Asst. City Atty., Tampa, Fla., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

KRENTZMAN, District Judge.

The Court has for consideration the final resolution of the merits of plaintiffs' case. On March 28, 1975, the plaintiffs filed a complaint alleging that City of Tampa Ordinance No. 6115-A regulating the display of "offensive sexual material" violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution. In addition to seeking declaratory judgment and monetary damages, the plaintiffs sought...

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