Legal Opinion
State Ex Rel. Sensenbrenner v. Adult Book Store
Ohio Court of Appeals
Decided March 2, 1971No. 9891PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
"Whiteside, J.
This is an appeal from a judgment of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, in an action brought pursuant to R. C. 2905.343, * enjoining the appellants from selling or distributing 127 magazines and books which the trial court found to be obscene.
There has been much litigation in recent years concerned with the limitations upon the general police power of the respective states in the area of the regulation or prohibition of obscenity. Unfortunately, this litigation has not resulted in clearly-defined limitations upon the exercise of the police power regulating obscenity,…
2Cases cited34 opinions
- Duncan v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Roth v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Chaplinsky v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Stanley v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- A Book Named "John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" v. Attorney General of MassachusettsSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Court v. WisconsinSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Price v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1972
- Cherokee News & Arcade, Inc. v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1973
- Peto v. CookDistrict Court, S.D. Ohio · 1973
- State Ex Rel. Ewing v. a Motion Picture Film Entitled "Without a Stitch"Ohio Court of Appeals · 1971
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