Interstate Circuit, Inc. v. City of Dallas

Appellants are an exhibitor and the distributor of a motion picture named “Viva Maria,” which, pursuant to a city ordinance, the Motion Picture Classification Board of the appellee City of Dallas classified as “not suitable for young persons.” A county court upheld the Board’s determination and enjoined exhibition of the film without acceptance by appellants of the requirements imposed by the restricted classification. The Texas Court of Civil Appeals affirmed,1 and we noted probable jurisdiction, 387 TJ. S. 903, to consider the First and Fourteenth Amendment issues raised by appellants with…