Opinion ID: 108266
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Heading: jurisdiction

Text: Appellants' assertion of a right of direct appeal to this Court relies upon 28 U. S. C. § 1253. That section permits an appeal in any civil action required to be heard and determined by a district court of three judges from an order granting or denying . . . an interlocutory or permanent injunction. [1] Paragraph 3 of the order of August 14, 1969, decrees: That the preliminary and permanent injunctions [against pending and future prosecutions] prayed for be denied. But § 1253 does not permit these appellants to appeal this portion of the judgment, since they prevailed to the extent of this denial of appellees' prayers for injunctive relief. Gunn v. University Committee to End the War in Viet Nam, 399 U. S. 383, 391 (1970) (WHITE, J., concurring). However, paragraphs 1 and 2 of the judgment are injunctive orders against appellants directing them not to use the seized materials as evidence against appellees in any pending or future prosecutions and directing the return of those materials. These provisions clearly qualified the judgment as an order granting . . . an . . . injunction, from which appellants could appeal directly to this Court.