VFW to Wipe Out Smut

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Fifth Estate # 95, December 26, 1969-January 7, 1970

Plymouth City Attorney Charles Lowe told a Detroit News reporter recently that “the Plymouth City Commission felt that the Wayne County Prosecutor’s office will no longer recommend warrants for violations of the state obscenity law and thus it has become …

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Dietrich Wins in Plymouth

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Fifth Estate # 95, December 26, 1969-January 7, 1970

Plymouth pigs went down in defeat in a frontal legal attack by Rolf Dietrich on December 18th.

Plymouth pigs bust Dietrich

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Fifth Estate # 92, November 13-26, 1969

On Halloween eve the Chief of the Plymouth pigs, in what was the culmination of an “extended investigation of the circulation and distribution of the Fifth Estate and the Ann Arbor Argus newspapers,” finally arrested Rolf Dietrich as he “did …

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Fifth Estate # 92, November 13-26, 1969

Rolf Dietrich, the scourge of Plymouth, let loose a barrage of legal fireworks in pursuit of his damage suit against Plymouth officials for confiscating 15 Fifth Estates from him earlier in the year. Dietrich says that he has won his …

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Plymouth Hits Smut

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Fifth Estate # 91, October 30-November 12, 1969

In a surprise but not so surprising appearance at a regular City of Plymouth City Commission meeting on Monday, Oct. 21, twelve anointed Veterans of Foreign Wars of one of the local posts registered their objections to the liberation of …

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Plymouth Legal Circus

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Fifth Estate # 90, October 16-29, 1969

On Oct. 2, Judge Dunbar Davis of the 35th District Court in Plymouth once again reaffirmed his judicial agility by bailing out the primordial Judge Richard Hammer of the 21st district court in Garden City and the ephemeral Charles Lowe, …

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Plymouth Legal Battle Rages

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Fifth Estate # 89, October 2-15, 1969

PLYMOUTH—With the deft hand of a club wielding savage, Garden City District Judge Richard Hammer, sat in Plymouth District Court Sept. 9, and summarily dismissed a suit against the city without allowing the complainant a chance to present his case.

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