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DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS v. VILLAGE OF OLD WESTBURY

CV 91-5060 (ADS).

862 F.Supp. 950 (1994)

DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS OF AMERICA, INC., Plaintiff, v. VILLAGE OF OLD WESTBURY, Defendant.

United States District Court, E.D. New York.

September 30, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James P. Duffy, Mineola, NY, for plaintiff.

Farrell, Fritz, Caemmerer, Cleary, Barnosky & Armentano, P.C. (John M. Armentano, of counsel), Uniondale, NY, for defendant.

OPINION AND ORDER

SPATT, District Judge:

Freedom of the press from government imposed prior restraints is a hard fought right of our democracy that the courts must guard with vigilance. As the esteemed commentator of the common law William Blackstone wrote in 1765, "[t]he liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for...

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