District Court for the Northern District of Illinois reviewed the arrests of cinema operators who were arrested for violating the Illinois obscenity statute, which stated: A person commits obscenity when, with knowledge of the nature or content thereof, or recklessly failing to exercise reasonable ...
Id. On remand, the district court found that Deretich had litigated frivolously and in bad faith. Id., slip op. at 5-8 (D. Minn. Dec. 23, 1986). The district court further found that Sarazin had "assisted [Deretich] in pursuing this litigation after it had clearly become frivolous,...