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BLOCK v. MEESE

No. 84-5318.

793 F.2d 1303 (1986)

Mitchell BLOCK, President, Direct Cinema Ltd., Inc., et al., Appellants, v. Edwin MEESE, III, Attorney General of the United States, et al.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided June 18, 1986.

As Amended June 18, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles S. Sims, New York City, with whom Susan W. Shaffer, Washington, D.C., and James A. Sevinsky, Albany, N.Y., were on brief, for appellants.

Harold J. Krent, Atty., U.S. Dept. of Justice, with whom Richard K. Willard, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Joseph E. diGenova, U.S. Atty. and Leonard Schaitman, Atty. U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., were on brief, for appellees.

Before BORK and SCALIA, Circuit Judges, and WRIGHT, Senior Circuit Judge.

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge SCALIA.

SCALIA, Circuit Judge:

This case concerns the Justice Department's classification of three films as "political propaganda" under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, and its consequent application of its regulations requiring the foreign agent distributing the films to make public disclosure of the names of certain recipients and exhibitors. The principal questions presented are, preliminarily, the standing...

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