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ALLIED ARTISTS PICTURES CORP. v. RHODES

No. C-2-78-1031.

473 F.Supp. 560 (1979)

ALLIED ARTISTS PICTURES CORPORATION, Avco Embassy Pictures Corp., Buena Vista Distribution Co., Inc., Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc., Paramount Pictures Corporation, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, United Artists Corporation, Universal Pictures division of Universal City Studios, Inc., Universal Film Exchanges, Inc., and Warner Bros. Inc., Warner Bros. Distributing Corporation, Plaintiffs, v. James A. RHODES, Governor, State of Ohio, Ted W. Brown, Secretary of State of Ohio, Vernal G. Riffe, Jr., Speaker, Ohio House of Representatives, and Richard F. Celeste, Lt. Governor, Ohio Senate, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. Ohio, E. D.

June 22, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Earl F. Morris, Harry Wright, III, Robert W. Trafford, Dixon F. Miller, Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur, Columbus, Ohio, Louis Nizer, New York City, Alan Dershowitz, Cambridge, Mass., Barbara Scott, William Nix, New York City, for plaintiffs.

William J. Brown, Atty. Gen. of Ohio, Paul D. Eklund, Richard M. Firestone, Gregory E. Young, Asst. Attys. Gen., Columbus, Ohio, for defendants.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

DUNCAN, District Judge.

Preliminary Statement

This is an action for declaratory and injunctive relief by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation and nine other companies engaged in the business of producing and distributing motion pictures. Defendants are James A. Rhodes, the Governor of Ohio; Ted W. Brown and Richard F. Celeste, the former Secretary of State and Lieutenant Governor respectively; and Vernal G. Riffe, Jr...

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