California Publishers Liquidating Corp

A federal jury has ordered the seizure of more than $10 million in assets from a Los Angeles company that is the nation's largest distributor of X-rated videos. The jury ordered the seizure of California Publishers Liquidating Corp. assets--including bank accounts and two warehouses--after it found the firm guilty of shipping obscene cassettes to Dallas. It was believed to be the first time that a jury had ordered such a seizure in a federal obscenity case. U.S.

A federal jury has ordered the seizure of more than $10 million in assets from a Los Angeles company that is the nation's largest distributor of X-rated videos. The jury ordered the seizure of California Publishers Liquidating Corp. assets--including bank accounts and two warehouses--after it found the firm guilty of shipping obscene cassettes to Dallas. It was believed to be the first time that a jury had ordered such a seizure in a federal obscenity case. U.S.

A top official at the troubled Los Angeles County Department of Children's Services has been removed from his position in the wake of his wife's indictment on federal charges of distributing pornographic videos and other sexually explicit material, The Times has learned.

A top official at the troubled Los Angeles County Department of Children's Services has been removed from his position in the wake of his wife's indictment on federal charges of distributing pornographic videos and other sexually explicit material, The Times has learned.

A federal court jury in Dallas has convicted a California distributor of X-rated videos and five other defendants of shipping obscene cassettes to Dallas in 1989. The 12 jurors acquitted one defendant and could not reach a verdict on four of the seven counts against each of the others. The jury must still decide whether the distributor, California Publishers Liquidating Corp.

A federal grand jury in Dallas on Monday indicted three Los Angeles companies and five of their officials on charges of interstate transportation of obscene material and conspiracy, alleging that they have run a wholesale distribution system for hard-core pornographic material.

The lawyers sat before the black-robed judge with righteous solemnity. The plaintiff, a darkly handsome 31-year-old, fidgeted with his coffee cup, his evidence packed up in a cardboard box nearby. The man's lawsuit contended that his talent had been exploited. But this was no garden variety breach-of-contract case. Put in the language of polite society, Peyton vs. Health Devices Inc. et al concerned the so-called piracy of body parts of the plaintiff, Charles Peyton.