Many of the papers faced official harassment on a regular basis; local police repeatedly raided and busted up the offices of "Dallas Notes" and jailed editor Stoney Burns on drug charges, charged Atlanta's "Great Speckled Bird" and others with obscenity, arrested street vendors, and pressured local printers not to print underground papers. In Austin, the regents at the University of Texas sued "The Rag" to prevent circulation on campus but the ACLU successfully defended the paper's First Amendment rights before the U.S. Supreme Court. In an apparent attempt to shut down "The Spectator" in Bloomington, Indiana, editor James Retherford was briefly imprisoned for alleged violations of the Selective Service laws; his conviction was overturned and the prosecutors were rebuked by a federal judge.