PEOPLE EX REL. GOW v. MITCHELL BROS. SANTA ANA

Docket No. 20836.

101 Cal.App.3d 296 (1980)

161 Cal. Rptr. 562

THE PEOPLE ex rel. KEITH GOW, as City Attorney, etc., Plaintiff and Respondent, v. MITCHELL BROTHERS' SANTA ANA THEATER et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division Two.

January 22, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Joseph Rhine for Defendants and Appellants.

James J. Clancy for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

TAMURA, J.

The City Attorney of the City of Santa Ana brought an action in the name of the People against the owners and operators of the Mitchell Brothers' Santa Ana Theater to enjoin the exhibition of a number of allegedly obscene motion pictures as a public nuisance. On plaintiff's motion, the court granted a preliminary injunction enjoining the showing of the films pending a final determination of their obscenity vel non...

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