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PLAYBOY ENTERPRISES v. PUBLIC SERV. COM'N OF P.R.

Civ. No. 87-0611 (JP).

698 F.Supp. 401 (1988)

PLAYBOY ENTERPRISES, INC., and Puerto Rico Cable Television Association, on its own behalf and on behalf of its members, Plaintiffs, v. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF PUERTO RICO; Angel Almodovar Correa; Ruben Villalba Olivo; Jose Cima de Villa; Maria Cancel Alegria; Ruben Rivera Garcia; Hon. Hector Rivera Cruz, Secretary of Justice of Puerto Rico, and Angel E. Rosa Rosa, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Puerto Rico.

October 31, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David W. Ogden, Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., Bruce J. Ennis, Ennis Friedman & Bersoff, Washington, D.C., Howard Shapiro, Burton Joseph, Playboy Enterprises, Inc., Chicago, Ill., Maria Emilia Picó, Erick G. Negrón, Rexach & Pico, Hato Rey, P.R., for Puerto Rico Cable Television Ass'n, Playboy Enterprises, Inc. and Playboy Programming Distribution Co. of America.

Carlos Del Valle, Ramirez & Ramirez, Hato Rey, P.R., for Public Service Com'n of the Commonwealth of P.R., Angel Almodovar Correa, Ruben Villalba Olivo, Jose Cima De Villa, Maria Cancel Alegria, Ruben Rivera Garcia and Hector Rivera Cruz.

Bruce A. Taylor, Scottsdale, Ariz., José A. Andreu García, Andreu Garcia & Andreu Garcia, Hato Rey, P.R., for Angel E. Rosa Rosa.

OPINION AND ORDER

PIERAS, District Judge.

On September 30, 1986, the Legislature of Puerto Rico passed Act Number 3 of the Seventh Special Session of the Tenth Legislature of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Act No. 3 amended the Penal Code of Puerto Rico by extending coverage of the definitions of "obscene material" and "distribution of obscene material" to include depictions and transmissions via cable television. Transmission of obscene material was made...

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