NATIONAL AMUSEMENTS, INC. v. TOWN OF DEDHAM

No. 94-1176.

43 F.3d 731 (1995)

NATIONAL AMUSEMENTS, INC., Plaintiff, Appellant, v. TOWN OF DEDHAM, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided January 4, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore E. Dinsmoor, with whom Finnegan and Stanzler, P.C., Philip Y. Brown, Grant Schwartz & Brown, Tad Jankowski, and Lori Wiechelt were on brief, for appellant.

Joyce Frank, with whom Kopelman and Paige, P.C., Boston, MA, was on brief, for appellee.

Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge, and STAHL, Circuit Judge.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents a medley of constitutional questions driven by the passage of a municipal bylaw that effectively prohibits the exhibition of motion pictures at the town's only theater between the hours of 1:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. After careful consideration of appellant's asseverational array, we affirm the district court's entry of summary judgment in the municipality's favor.

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