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CRUZ v. FERRE

No. 83-5588.

755 F.2d 1415 (1985)

Ruben CRUZ, Plaintiff-Appellee, Home Box Office, Intervenor-Appellee, v. Maurice A. FERRE, etc., Howard Gary, etc., the City of Miami, Fl., etc., Defendants-Appellants, Americable of Greater Miami, Ltd., et al., Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

March 22, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gisela Cardonne, Asst. City Atty., Miami, Fla., for defendants-appellants.

Charles A. Hobbs, Hobbs, Straus, Dean & Wilder, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae, State of Utah.

Ellis Rubin, Miami, Fla., for plaintiff-appellee.

Frates, Bienstock & Sheehe, Terry S. Bienstock, Miami, Fla., Faith Wender, Los Angeles, Cal., George Shapiro, Washington, D.C., for Home Box.

William M. Grodnick, Myers, Kenin, Levinson, Ruffner, Frank & Richards, Miami, Fla., for Miami Cablevision.

Michael R. Klipper, MPAA, Inc., New York City, Tench C. Coxe, Troutman, Sanders, Lockerman & Ashmore, Atlanta, Ga., for Motion Picture Assn. of America, Inc., amicus curiae.

Robert St. John Roper, Washington, D.C., for National Cable Television Assn., Inc., amicus curiae.

Before HATCHETT and CLARK, Circuit Judges, and STAFFORD, District Judge.

STAFFORD, District Judge:

This cause involves a challenge to the constitutionality of a Miami ordinance regulating the distribution of obscene and indecent material through cable television. The district court found the provisions of the ordinance regulating the distribution of "indecent material" constitutionally overbroad. Additionally, the district judge held that the ordinance "violate[s] the notion of fairness implicit in one's right to due process of law." ...

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