URBAN INDUSTRIES, INC. OF KY. v. THEVIS

No. 80-7715.

670 F.2d 981 (1982)

URBAN INDUSTRIES, INC. OF KENTUCKY, Etc., Et Al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Joan THEVIS, Intervenor-Appellant, v. Michael G. THEVIS, Et Al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

March 15, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Levine & D'Alessio, Mortin P. Levine, Burgess W. Stone, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Robert M. Travis, Atlanta, Ga., and Ogden, Robertson & Marshall, Wesley P. Adams, Louisville, Ky., for Urban Industries, Inc., et al.

William L. Harper, U. S. Atty., Barbara Harris, Asst. U. S. Atty., Atlanta, Ga., Michael L. Paup, Chief, App. Section, Tax Div., U. S. Dept. of Justice, M. Carr Ferguson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., for U. S. A.

Brown, Byrd, Blakley & Massey, R. Wayne Byrd, Greenville, S. C., and Cook & Palmour, Summerville, Ga., Joan I. Oppenheimer, Tax Div., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for Michael Thevis.

Before GODBOLD, Chief Judge, TJOFLAT and VANCE, Circuit Judges.


VANCE, Circuit Judge:

This appeal involves the relative priority of claims against Michael G. Thevis, a notorious dealer in pornographic materials.1 We affirm the district court's decision granting priority to the United States.

Prior to December 1974 Thevis lived in Atlanta, Georgia and conducted his extensive business operations from there. In December 1974 he began serving a prison...

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