Legal Opinion
Paramount Film Distributing Corp. v. City of Chicago
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided March 24, 1959No. 58 C 437PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SULLIVAN, Chief Judge.
The plaintiff, Paramount Film Distributing Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“Paramount”) is the licensed distributor of a motion picture film called “Desire Under the Elms”; defendants are the City of Chicago and its Mayor and Police Commissioner. Plaintiff complains that defendants have granted a permit to show “Desire Under the Elms” only to persons over twenty-one years of age and. requests an injunction restraining defendants from interfering with its general exhibition.
Plaintiff was required to apply for a permit to show the film by the Municipal Code of Chicago…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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- Butler v. MichiganSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
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3Cited by7 opinions
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- Tavernier v. Weyerhaeuser Co.District Court, D. Oregon · 1963
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