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BULLFROG FILMS, INC. v. WICK

No. CV 85-7930 AWT.

646 F.Supp. 492 (1986)

BULLFROG FILMS, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Charles Z. WICK, Director, United States Information Agency, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, C.D. California.

October 24, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Cole, Margaret Ratner, Michael Ratner, Morton Stavis, Center for Constitutional Rights, New York City, Ben Margolis, Margolis, McTernan, Scope & Epstein, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiffs.

Robert C. Bonner, U.S. Atty., Stephen D. Peterson, Asst. U.S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., Vincent M. Garvey, Richard C. Stearns, Dept. of Justice, Civil Div., Washington, D.C., for defendants.

Paul Hoffman, ACLU Foundation of Southern California, Los Angeles, Cal., Jack Novick, ACLU Foundation, New York City, for amici curiae American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Southern California, Film Arts Foundation, Intern. Documentary Ass'n, Writers Guild of America, West, Inc., The Nation Institute and Pen American Center.

TASHIMA, District Judge.

Plaintiffs in this action are independent film makers, film distributors and a membership association. They allege that the United States Information Agency (the "USIA" or "Agency"), violated their constitutional rights, which caused them economic injury, by refusing to certify their films as "educational" under the Agreement For Facilitating The International Circulation of Visual And Auditory Materials of An Educational, Scientific And Cultural...

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