Owens-Illinois, Inc. v. Danfield

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• finding no state action in carrier’s refusal to place any indecent messages on its message network where governmental prohibition was only directed at obscene material
• reiterating the general rule that “classifications that neither regulate suspect classes nor burden fundamental rights must be sustained if they are rationally related to a legitimate governmental interest”
• finding no state action in carrier's refusal to place any indecent messages on its message network where governmental prohibition was only directed at obscene material
• carrier is under no constitutional restraints in its policy of barring all \adult entertainment\ from its 976 network
• threats by a county attorney to prosecute the telephone company if it did not terminate 976 service to an “adult entertainment” provider converted actions of phone company to state action
• “The federal district court ... takes as its authority on federal constitutional issues, decisions of the United States Courts of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court, rather than those of the state supreme court.”

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Cited by

63 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Rhoades v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-10-02· cited 959×
• United States v. Brandon
  First Circuit· 1994-01-31· cited 453×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-09-16· cited 452×
• Burks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-03-09· cited 436×
• Robertson v. Allied Signal, Inc.
  Third Circuit· 1990-08-28· cited 375×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-03-08· cited 294×
• Caldwell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-10-16· cited 241×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-09-13· cited 216×
• United States v. Robert Joseph Carr, Jr., in No. 93-1376. United States of America v. Walter Orlando Cardona-Usquiano, in No. 93-1383
  Third Circuit· 1994-06-28· cited 207×
• Landrigan v. Celotex Corp.
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1992-05-06· cited 192×
• Sattiewhite v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-10-25· cited 187×
• United States v. Crystal Mason, Edward Young
  Ninth Circuit· 1990-05-10· cited 184×
• United States v. Thomas A. Burger, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Inc., Amicus Curiae
  Tenth Circuit· 1992-05-21· cited 151×
• Calderon v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1997-05-08· cited 128×
• United States v. Woody F. Lemons
  Fifth Circuit· 1991-08-27· cited 122×
• Jenkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-10-11· cited 122×
• United States v. William W. Lilly
  First Circuit· 1992-12-04· cited 120×
• Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Arizona Corp. Commission
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1989-06-01· cited 70×
• United States v. Mancuso
  Fourth Circuit· 1994-11-09· cited 67×
• United States v. D. Gary Barnhart
  Eighth Circuit· 1992-12-16· cited 65×

Other cases named Owens-Illinois, Inc. v. Danfield

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Owens-Illinois, Inc. v. Danfield
  Supreme Court· 1988-04-25