Fine Arts Guild, Inc. v. City of Seattle

Ordinances Nos. 83099 and 932271 of the city of Seattle undertake, through a board of theatre supervisors, to regulate and classify motion pictures and allied forms of entertainment as to their moral content. Respondents in the present actions, consolidated for purposes of trial and appeal, challenge the constitutionality of the respective ordinances upon the grounds that they violated the first2 and fourteenth3 amendments to the United States Constitution, *505and Const, art. 1, §§ 34, 5,5 and 12.6 The trial court sustained the challenges. The city of Seattle and its coparties appeal. We affirm…