Court of Appeals closed the final case in May 2001, and the movie is once again available in Oklahoma County. federal courts ruled that the movie did not violate Oklahoma obscenity laws, and the seizure of the videotapes had been unconstitutional.
By October 1998, after several related lawsuits, U.S. was forced to back down within weeks, and most of the seized videos had been returned by December. The local District Attorney announced that anyone possessing a copy of the movie would be arrested. They intimidated video store managers into giving them the addresses of customers with rental copies, went to those homes, and confiscated the movies. Oklahoma City police confiscated all copies of the film from libraries and rental outlets, without obtaining the necessary search warrants or court orders. In June 1997, at the urging of a Christian fundamentalist group, and after viewing a few isolated scenes, an Oklahoma County District Court judge ruled that the film contained child pornography, as defined by Oklahoma's obscenity laws, and was therefore illegal.
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