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AMATO v. WILENTZ

No. 90-1951.

753 F.Supp. 543 (1990)

Nicholas R. AMATO, County Executive of the County of Essex and the County of Essex, a political subdivision of the State of New Jersey, Plaintiff, v. Robert N. WILENTZ, individually and in his official capacity as Administrative Head of the New Jersey Judiciary System, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

December 18, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis P. McQuade, Acting Essex County Counsel, Newark, N.J., Edward F. Lamb, Edward A. Hartnett, Robinson, St. John & Wayne, Newark, N.J., on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, for plaintiff.

Douglas S. Eakeley, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Benjamin Clark, Deputy Atty. Gen., Robert J. Del Tufo, Atty. Gen. of N.J., Trenton, N.J., for defendant.

OPINION AND ORDER

POLITAN, District Judge.

This is a case to determine the constitutionality of certain acts taken by defendant Robert Wilentz, Chief Justice of The Supreme Court of New Jersey, prohibiting Warner Brothers ("Warner") from filming scenes for a commercial motion picture in the Old Essex County Courthouse ("Courthouse"). The plaintiffs are Nicholas Amato, Essex County Executive, and the County of...

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