EAGLE BOOKS, INC. v. DIFANIS

No. 87-1564.

873 F.2d 1040 (1989)

EAGLE BOOKS, INC., a Delaware corporation, d/b/a Urbana News, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Thomas J. DIFANIS, in his capacity as State's Attorney of Champaign County, Illinois, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 28, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Steven Beckett, Reno, O'Byrne & Kepley, P.C., Champaign, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

Karen Rosenwinkel, Atty. Gen. Office, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellee.

Before CUMMINGS and FLAUM, Circuit Judges, and GRANT, Senior District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

Plaintiff, Eagle Books, Inc., owns and operates Urbana News, an adult bookstore in Urbana, Illinois, where sexually explicit material — magazines, paperback books, videotapes, motion picture films, and novelties — is sold to adults. Defendant Thomas J. Difanis, the State's Attorney of Champaign County, is in charge of prosecuting violations of civil and criminal statutes there on behalf of the state. At issue here is Difanis' enforcement...

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