Pack v. City of Cleveland

This matter involves the appeal of a judgment of the Court of Appeals for Cuyahoga County affirming an order of the Court of Common Pleas which held that the exemption under R.C. 2907.35(C) of motion picture operators or projectionists from the operation of the obscenity statute R.C. 2907.31, pertaining to disseminating matter harmful to juveniles, and R.C. 2907.32, dealing generally with pandering obscenity, was unconstitutional as being violative of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

The major issue presented here is before this court…