Legal Opinion
Paramount Film Distributing Corp. v. State
New York Court of Appeals
Decided June 8, 1972No. Claim 45976PublishedCited by 230 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBreitel, J.
Claimant, a motion picture distributor, seeks recovery of $128,322.50 in motion picture license fees paid to the State from June 10, 1959 to June 10, 1965 when the applicable statutes were nullified (Education Law, § 120-132; Matter of Trans-Lux Distr. Corp. v. Board of Regents, 16 N Y 2d 710, on remand from the United States Supreme Court, 380 U. S. 259). The fee for original films was $3.50 for each 1,000 feet of film while the fee for copies was $3 plus an additional dollar *418for each 1,000 feet (Education Law, § 126). Although over a six-year period the fees aggregate an impressive sum, the…
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